“The FBI is asking for assistance in locating Ahmad Khan Rahami”, FBI New York said in a tweet, released with the picture of the suspect, who is now also sought in connection with todays explosion in New Jersey as well.
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Saturday night’s blast in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan injured 29 people, and another unexploded device made out of pressure cooker was found several blocks away.
His fingerprints and DNA were found at the scene of the Manhattan bombing, they said.
(Justin Lane/EPA via AP, Pool).
After zeroing in on Rahami and learning of the auto that had traveled between New Jersey and NY, authorities pulled it over Sunday night after it headed in the direction of Kennedy airport.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized USA citizen from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was taken into custody hours after authorities identified him as the prime suspect in the Saturday night blast.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg, and two officers were wounded but were not critically hurt in the shootout that followed a weekend of fear and dread across NY and beyond. Authorities said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg. The officer was wearing a bullet-proof vest, said Linden Police Captain James Sarnicki. NY mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN’s New Day that Rahami, a New Jersey resident of Afghan descent, is a naturalized us citizen.
A New Jersey mayor says one of five devices found in a backpack near a train station has exploded while a bomb squad robot was attempting to disarm it. The homemade pressure-cooker bombs contained shrapnel and a cellphone was utilized to detonate the device, said police.
Earlier Saturday in Seaside Heights, N.J., a pipe bomb exploded near a Marine charity run. No one was injured there.
Late Sunday night, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station. “We have no information that would link them to this at all”, Boyce said at a briefing.
With Rahami’s arrest, officials said they have no indication there are more bombs or suspects to find, though they cautioned that they are still investigating.
Rahami’s involvement in the two bombings is unclear at this time, but officials believe Rahami is the man seen in surveillance footage rolling a duffel bag near the scene of the bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of NY. Law enforcement sources told DNAinfo that they believe this may have inadvertently disabled the bomb.
Cuomo said on “CBS This Morning”.
Bollwage said two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of a package after finding it around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The law enforcement officials said at least one of Rahami’s relatives was in the vehicle, which appeared headed toward Kennedy Airport in NY after coming from New Jersey.
Peter Bilinskas was standing by his desk at his Linden bowling-supply shop when he heard what sounded like gunfire and saw a man walking down the street with a gun in his hand.
Before Rahami’s capture, Cuomo said investigators have no reason to believe there are further threats, but the public should “be on constant guard”.
The shootout came after a weekend of fear and dread in the NY area and beyond.
What we know: ISIS said that a man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall on Saturday evening was a “solider of the Islamic state”, according to the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq.
Investigators have not said if there is any connection between the two explosions in New Jersey, or the explosion in Chelsea.
She declined to provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press five people in the vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in Lower Manhattan.
Obama is in NY for the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering. He called on Americans to show the world “we will never give in to fear”. Still, some of the family restaurant’s customers said Rahami was more likely to talk about his interest in cars than to mention faith.
-Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
Mohammad Rahami, the suspect’s father, said he had been unaware of his son planning any bombings.
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The Rahamis charged in the lawsuit that they were targeted by neighbors because they are Muslims.
