Derrick Shareef, also known as Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef, is a convicted Islamic terrorist who was charged with trying to trade stereo speakers for handgrenades and a handgun as part of plan to terrorize shoppers at CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois.
[3] Shareef was born in 1984 to mother Margaret Ann "Marie" Dunn and was raised mostly in Georgia, before moving to Illinois with his family.
He was raised alongside one older brother, Marvin Dunn, and one younger sister, Christina Shareef.
Shareef, a convert to the Nation of Islam,[4] was steered by an undercover informant from wanting to "smoke a judge" to a more public plan to "disrupt Christmas.
"[5] On November 28, 2007, Shareef pleaded guilty to a specific charge of planning to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property.