LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More details are coming out about the Muslim convert who’s charged in the shooting death of a soldier at a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas yesterday.

A law enforcement official says an FBI-led terrorism task force has been investigating Abdulhakim Muhammad since he returned to the U.S. from Yemen. The official says Muhammad had been arrested and jailed while in Yemen for using a Somali passport.

Muhammad pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge this morning and was ordered held without bail.

Prosecutors say he admitted to yesterday’s shooting, expressing political and religious motives. They say he told investigators that he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot.

Muhammad was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe. Police say it does not appear he was part of a larger plot to attack American military targets.

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