Eight Killed in Terror Attack in New York Police say at least a dozen were injured Tuesday afternoon when a driver mowed down pedestrians and bikers By Melanie Grayce West, Mara Gay, Biography @MaraGay Mara.Gay@wsj.com Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Kate King
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-least-6-die-in-lower-manhattan-incident-1509483701
Eight people were killed and at least a dozen injured on Tuesday when a truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a lower Manhattan bike path in what officials said was a “cowardly act of terror,” the deadliest attack in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.
The driver shouted “God is great” in Arabic when he got out of his truck and was confronted by police, a law-enforcement official said.
He was identified by officials as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old from Tampa, Fla., who came to the U.S. in 2010 and is originally from Uzbekistan. He is in custody at a local hospital after he was shot in the abdomen by an officer, police said.
A law-enforcement official said police found handwritten notes near the truck saying that the suspect carried out the attack in the name of ISIS.
The terror unfolded shortly after 3 p.m., when the suspect drove a flatbed pickup truck rented from Home Depot for nearly a mile along a picturesque stretch of a bike path along the Hudson River, leaving behind mangled bikes and bodies.
The carnage ended at an intersection in Tribeca near the World Trade Center, where the truck smashed into a small school bus. Then the suspect exited his truck, brandishing a paintball gun and pellet gun before being shot by a New York Police Department officer.
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