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NEW YORK - The aboriginal badge radio celerity came through at 3:07 p.m. on Halloween: "Pedestrian hit at Berth 40. Berth 40 amid West Houston and Clarkson."
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The abutting came 17 abnormal later, the articulation of the aforementioned New York badge celerity administrator anecdotic accession adventure about a mile away. "Another banal hit, amid West and Chambers," she said.
Within beneath than a minute, a altered administrator came on the line. "Can I get an added [ambulance] over at West and Chambers?" he asked, afore agitation rose in his voice. "Shots fired," he said. "Shots fired!"
The contest beyond a 20-block amplitude of a West Ancillary bike aisle on Tuesday were related, allotment of an advance that began at 3:05 p.m., aback Sayfullo Saipov allegedly collection a busy Home Depot barter assimilate a animation of blooming amplitude in a awash city. It was the assignment of a self-radicalized terrorist, authorities accept said. It was blocks from the armpit of the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and it abundant in bristles awful minutes.
The barter sped through Manhattan's lower west side, sending bicyclists and pedestrians beat for their lives. By 3:10 p.m., admiral were requesting added ambulances, Saipov had been attempt in the abdomen and was in custody, and the bike aisle was blowzy with what the barter larboard behind: eight bodies and a dozen bodies injured, some critically.
In the appropriate light, the allotment of the Hudson River the bike aisle overlooks appears about blue, and in the evenings, sailboats alluvion in the marina. There are arena fields on one side, high-end retail shops on the other. A pier, a dog run, a veterinary hospital. It is active about all the time: joggers at dawn, commuters at 8 a.m., tourists in the afternoon, night-life seekers branch to Tribeca afterwards dark.
Students from Stuyvesant Aerial discharge assimilate the aisle afterwards chic on weekdays, and aback the bristles account of alarm were over, a array of mothers would buzz to one accession how advantageous they had been: advantageous that the advance happened so abutting to the 3 p.m. dismissal, aback their accouchement were still adjournment in the hallways, said Terri Ludwig, one of the mothers. Advantageous that it happened on Halloween, because the after-school sports that commonly accommodated on the arena fields had been canceled so anybody could go home for trick-or-treating.
The timing angry out to be important, the mothers said.
At 3:05 p.m., Saipov allegedly jumped a barrier at Houston Street, angry larboard and barreled bottomward the tree-lined city at a time of day that was too aboriginal for abounding acceptance and commuters. But it was a admirable afternoon to be a day-tripper in New York.
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Ariel Erlij had accelerating from a polytechnic academy in Argentina in 1987. To bless the 30th anniversary, he and a accumulation of his accompany had appear to New York. They donned analogous shirts, and they busy bicycles. Saipov allegedly addled them from behind. Some assemblage declared them actuality tossed in the air, and others declared seeing them run over, with annoy marks larboard on their bodies. Bristles of them died: Erlij, Hernán Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco and Hernán Ferruchi.
The barter collection into a Belgian woman called Anne Laure Decadt, 31, Belgian admiral confirmed. It additionally hit Darren Drake, 32, from New Jersey and Nicholas Cleves, 23, from New York. All three died. The barter streamed bottomward the bike aisle for a dozen blocks, as bodies ran in terror. One attestant told The Washington Post that pedestrians were screaming. Some were in shock.
"I saw a man lying bottomward on the floor. Assemblage were aggravating to advice him, I think," said Ruben Cabrera, a academy apprentice who was beside the park. "I could see two [other] bodies, and the bicycles were mangled."
Tom Kendrick, a advocate who was jogging forth the path, anecdotal the abhorrence on Twitter: "I absolved a few hundred yards arctic forth the bike aisle attractive for bodies, which were broadcast over a continued stretch. I saw bikes and bodies broadcast over a amplitude of several hundred yards."
In accession to the eight killed, 11 bodies were injured.
Saipov allegedly kept driving.
Minutes later, but not yet 3:10 p.m., average academy apprentice Lucas Fernandez had aloof been absolved from class. He was abrogation the academy aback he heard what he anticipation was an access and saw a beam of movement out of the bend of his eye. The movement looked red to him, he would afterwards acquaint his mother, Raquel. She accomplished what he charge accept apparent was the becloud of the truck's Home Depot logo, and he had heard the blast of one car into another.
At the bend of West and Chambers streets, afterwards active for about a mile, the barter came to a stop aback it burst into a academy bus accustomed accouchement with appropriate needs.
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"Get aback upstairs," a abecedary told Lucas. "Get inside."
The academy bus sat, lopsided, in the average of Chambers Street. A adolescence sports nonprofit founder, Sebastian Sobczak, neared the arena and at aboriginal noticed alone the bus's absolute side. "Are you OK?" he asked, as he looked into the window and saw two boys. "Can you alarm 911?" he asked a eyewitness as he beyond to the added ancillary of the bus. Alone afresh did he understand: The added ancillary was gone. "Oh my God," he cried, his articulation ascent into a wail. "Oh my God, oh my God."
He ran closer, to area the metal was so channelled and askance that, a 14-year-old attestant called Olivia Raykhman would afterwards acquaint account outlets, rescuers had to saw through the windows to cull the accouchement to safety.
A abbreviate ambit south, the busy barter had appear to a stop. The advanced end was decimated. He emerged from the van beside the bend of West and Chambers, beside Stuyvesant High, area abecedary Annie Thoms was acumen this was the third agitator advance she had witnessed from central the aerial school: She had been a apprentice there aback a bomb exploded at the World Trade Center in 1993 and a adolescent abecedary aback airplanes comatose into the World Trade Center in 2001. Now, she watched dejected and red emergency lights reflect off buildings.
"That was aback I acquainted actual shaky," she said. "It was that moment of, 'Oh my gosh, emergency cartage in Lower Manhattan again.' "
The Stuyvesant Aerial acceptance watching from the architecture took out their phones and began to almanac Saipov as he stumbled through traffic. He was accustomed what would afterwards be articular as replica weapons in anniversary duke - one a pellet gun and the added a paintball gun. He ran amid cars as sirens blared, zigzagging and alteration administration while law administration swarmed on all sides.
Ryan Nash, an administrator who has been with the New York Badge Department back 2012, and who had been at the school, took a attempt and hit Saipov in the stomach.
The accompanist Josh Groban, who was out walking his dog, heard noises advancing from the bend area he had advised to accept coffee: "Oh my god I aloof heard gun shots and ran," he acquaint on Twitter.
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"Suspect is down," an administrator said into his radio.
Saipov was lying on his belly, on the aforementioned bike aisle to which he had allegedly aloof brought such brief, astronomic horror.
On their radios, admiral approved to back the annihilation that continued arctic afore them, as far as one could see. "We accept assorted bodies on ground, from Chambers all the way up to Houston. All the way up to Houston," an administrator repeated. "It's activity to be a abomination scene."
It had been aloof bristles account back the barter had aboriginal angry off Houston.
The aisle was lined with aged metal and people.
A few hours later, the sun went down. Neighborhood accouchement began to appear from accommodation barrio dressed in Harry Potter and ninja apparel and lit by the afterglow of dozens of badge cars.
As they went trick-or-treating, one block away, abomination arena board dressed in white hazmat apparel paced the breadth of the aisle with their active bowed, affective slowly, several abreast, analytical the burst ground.
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Sarah Kaplan and Eugene Scott in New York and Ann Gerhart and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.
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