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NEW YORK, NY — The man accused of careening a barter bottomward a bike aisle on New York's West Side, killing eight and abasing a dozen more, was answerable Wednesday evening.
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Federal prosecutors from Manhattan apparent two accuse adjoin Sayfullo Saipov, 29 – accouterment actual abutment to a agitator alignment and abandon and abolition of a motor agent "with a adventuresome apathy for the assurance of animal life."
Saipov showed no anguish for the killing spree, according to a bent complaint — he told board that "he acquainted acceptable about what he had done" and asked to accept the Islamic State group's banderole afraid in his hopital room.
The cloister filing says that he absitively to backpack out the advance afterwards watching ISIS videos – including one of a beheading – on his corpuscle phone. Board recovered about 90 videos from the phone.
Prosecutors say that he had started planning the advance added than a year ago and that he absitively to use a barter so he could account "maximum accident adjoin civilians."
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He chose Halloween for the aforementioned reason, they said – added bodies would be on the street. He originally planned to drive the barter assimilate the Brooklyn Bridge to annihilate added bodies afterwards the bike aisle massacre, the bent complaint says.
Officials added that they recovered two corpuscle phones as able-bodied as several knives that had been in the truck.
Saipov had agitated out the agitator bang according to admonition from the Islamic State group, said John Miller, the NYPD's agent counterterrorism commissioner. The doubtable was attempt by badge at the arena and taken to a hospital.
"He did this in the name of ISIS," Miller told reporters at badge address Wednesday morning. Badge begin handwritten addendum in Arabic advertence Saipov's affiliation to the agitator group, he said.
The FBI had said Wednesday that board were additionally attractive for Mukhammadzoir Kadirov in affiliation with the attack, but he has not been called a suspect. Like Saipov, Kadirov is an Uzbek immigrant, the FBI said.
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At the columnist appointment announcement the accuse adjoin Saipov, Bill Sweeney, the abettor administrator in allegation of the FBI's New York office, said they were no best attractive for Kadirov but did not elaborate. WNYC appear that the FBI had amid him.
Saipov's Tuesday afternoon advance dead eight bodies and afflicted a dozen others on the aisle abreast the West Side Highway amid Houston and Chambers streets, aloof blocks arctic of the World Trade Center, admiral said.
Saipov followed, "almost absolutely to a T," the Islamic State's appear instructions on how to annihilate as abounding bodies as accessible with a ample truck, Miller said. The agitator accumulation calls such attacks a "just alarm tactic." Similar strikes accept dead and afflicted array of bodies in France, Germany and Sweden in the accomplished two years.
Police begin the addendum in Saipov's truck, which he busy from a New Jersey Home Depot on Tuesday afternoon, admiral said. They additionally recovered several knives, a paintball gun and a pellet gun, Miller said.
"The basis of the agenda was that the Islamic State would abide forever," Miller said.
Investigators accept Saipov, a citizen of Paterson, N.J., came into Manhattan to ambit out the bike aisle forth the Hudson River at some point afore the attack, said Bill Sweeney, the FBI's abettor administrator in allegation for New York City.
Saipov is affiliated with the Islamic State accumulation and was "radicalized" in the Affiliated States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told CNN beforehand Wednesday. He is in analytical but abiding action at Bellevue Hospital, area he's in badge custody, admiral said.
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Saipov accurately immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in March 2010, admiral said. He was never on the FBI's radar, but board are attractive into his contacts with doubtable terrorists, Miller said.
"He will accept some connectivity to individuals who were the capacity of investigation, admitting he himself was not," Miller said.
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The FBI and NYPD are still acquisition affirmation from the scene, interviewing assemblage and Saipov's associates, and administering searches about the country, admiral said. Saipov ahead lived in Ohio and Florida. His wife is allied with authorities and had no ability of the attack, NBC News appear Wednesday.
There are currently no aboveboard agitator threats to New York City, admiral said.
"This was the affliction alarm advance in New York Burghal back Sept. 11, 2001," NYPD Abettor James O'Neill said Wednesday.
According to investigators, Saipov busy a auto barter from a Home Depot in Passaic, N.J. at 2:06 p.m. He collection it beyond the George Washington Bridge and exited assimilate the West Side Highway at 2:43 p.m.
Officials said annihilation about the rental seemed apprehensive to advisers at the store, who are allied with investigators.
When he got to Houston Artery at 3:04 p.m., Saipov collection off West Artery and started dispatch bottomward the bike path, active over cyclists and pedestrians forth the way, Miller said, citation video footage and interviews with witnesses. He collided with a academy bus at Chambers Artery a few account later, abasing several others.
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More than a dozen calls abounding 911 at 3:08 p.m. advertisement the crash, banal injuries and a man who appeared to be bouncing a gun, Miller said. Three cops from the NYPD's 1st Precinct got to the scene. One of them, 28-year-old Brian Nash, attempt Saipov in the stomach, "bringing the advance to an end," Miller said.
FBI board will be at the arena accession affirmation through aboriginal this evening, Sweeney said. The West Side Highway amid 14th Artery and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel will be bankrupt at atomic until then, the NYPD said.
The federal Joint Terrorism Task Force's New York Burghal and New Jersey offices are alive to amend Saipov's accomplish and actuate absolutely how he planned the attack, admiral said.
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"We appetite to be able to reconstruct this absolute trip," Miller said.
Law administration agencies are acceleration the cardinal of admiral at heavily busy areas about the city, including airports, tunnels and alms stations, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. The NYPD is additionally deploying added heavily armed guards and counterterrorism officers, Chief of Department Carlos Gomez said.
"You'll see added admiral on the trains, they will see added admiral on the platforms," Gomez said Wednesday. "They should apprehend added bag checks and added stations."
Saipov reportedly came to the U.S. through a federal affairs that offers visas to bodies from countries with low ante of clearing to the country. President Donald Trump wants to end the alleged assortment acceptance program, he said Wednesday. He told reporters he may accelerate Saipov to the agitator bastille in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"I would absolutely accede that. Accelerate him to Gitmo," Trump said.
The New York affiliate of the Council on American-Islamic Relations accursed the advance Wednesday. The Muslim advancement accumulation is hosting an interfaith acuity for the victims at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Foley Square.
"Since the ambition of such abhorrent crimes is to bisect our nation, it is bounden on Americans of all faiths and backgrounds to annul that bent cold by continuing affiliated in the face of terror," Afaf Nasher, CAIR's New York controlling director, said in a statement.
The advance didn't avert added than a actor New Yorkers from amusement in Tuesday's Halloween array in Greenwich Village. And added than 2.5 actor bodies will booty to the streets Sunday to run in or watch the New York Burghal Marathon — admitting they'll see a beefed-up badge attendance beyond the bristles boroughs, including snipers watching from above.
"We accept this was an advance on our values," Mayor Bill de Blasio said. "It was an accomplishment to breach our spirit, but as an accomplishment to breach our spirit it failed."
Read the abounding bent complaint adjoin Saipov below.
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Lead image: Undated photo provided by St. Charles County Department of Corrections via KMOV shows Sayfullo Saipov. (St. Charles County Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)
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