The FBI and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Rahami should be considered armed and risky.
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Ryan McCann, a regular at the restaurant, told the New York Times he last ate there two weeks ago.
Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. Rahami was wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of ny and the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park.
He appeared to be injured and was bleeding in the shoulder as he was loaded into an an ambulance on a stretcher with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Rahami, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan, was taken into custody Monday after a shootout with police in the nearby town of Linden.
Donald Trump said at a campaign rally Monday that it’s “sad” that the suspect in the weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey will receive medical attention and legal representation.
Investigators are focusing on whether he had co-conspirators and his possible motive in allegedly bombing New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood and detonating a pipe bomb along the route of the US Marine Corps race on the Jersey shore.
No one was wounded in that blast.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she had been briefed “about the bombings in NY and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota”. VIDEO: NYC explosion captured by surveillance videoLate Sunday, five suspicious devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He said he recognized Rahami and called police.
Monday afternoon, charges were laid against Rahami including 5 counts of attempted murder, and 2 weapons charges. Sources say that federal prosecutors have already drafted charges against Rahami, and they could be announced as early as Monday. Messages left for family members were not immediately returned.
In 2011, the family sued the city of Elizabeth, and its police department for discrimination and harassment against Muslims stemming from disputes over the restaurant’s hours.
Rahami is said to have studied criminal justice and liked fast cars.
Police say Rahami had not been previously known to law enforcement, except in connection with a domestic complaint which was later dropped.
The coalition said it also appluds the work of the law enforcement agencies who worked to “bring the perpetrator to justice”.
Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said the break in the case came late Monday morning, when the owner of a bar reported someone asleep in his doorway. Authorities say all three of the bombs in Chelsea and Seaside Park had flip phones, even though there are some differences in design.
“He looked like a bum”, Mazza said.
Armstead said the man pulled out a handgun and fired at the officers, hitting one in a bulletproof vest. None of the officers suffered life-threatening injuries. A Linden, New Jersey bar owner who had seen the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted poster alerted police that he saw the suspect sleeping in a doorway. Rahami was shot and wounded by officers and taken to a hospital. The two men who found the backpack thought it might contain something valuable, but they alerted police when they saw wires and a pipe on the devices, the mayor said. Authorities were trying to determine if they were connected. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility. The organization and the Afghan Embassy in Washington condemned the bombings.
The series of attacks come as NY hosts world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
“We know that a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular ISIS, because they are looking to make this into a war against Islam rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorists”, Clinton said Monday morning at an airport hangar in White Plains, New York. Rahami is believed to have used a pressure cooker to build the bombs, just as the Tsarnaev brothers did in Boston. The Rahamis charged in the lawsuit they were targeted by police because they’re Muslims. He had recently begun working more frequently at First American Fried Chicken, neighbours said.
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“He’s always in there”. He’s a very friendly guy, that’s what’s so scary. Local media reports say his family ran a restaurant there on the first floor of their home. New Yorkers barely seemed to bat an eyelid.
