The FBI broadcast an image of the two men, saying in the bulletin that they are “interested in speaking to these individuals and recovering the luggage”.
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He was listed in critical but stable condition, and police had not yet been able to interview him in depth, New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill said.
“We have no reason to believe they are involved”.
“We have a video of two persons who picked up the bag, took the device out of it and then walked off with the bag”, NY chief of detectives Robert Boyce told a news conference Monday. “Once they picked up the bag, they seemed incredulous they had actually picked this up off the street”.
“No”, Mohammad Rahami said.
The FBI says he is also directly linked to an explosion earlier in the day in Seaside Park, N.J.
“Once they picked up the bag, they seemed incredulous they had actually picked this up off the street and they walked off with it”, Boyce said. “I still have my nine lives, I guess, and I’m going to keep trying to live them well”. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer who could comment on the charges against him, but a federal public defender told a judge Tuesday night that Rahami has not had access to a lawyer since his arrest.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was stretchered into an ambulance, sporting a bloodied bandage on his right arm. He told reporters on Tuesday that his son was “doing bad” at the time and had recently hit his stepmother. The official tells CNN authorities are working with Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates “to get access to her and to ask questions about what she knew”. They left the device but took the luggage with them.
Federal investigators were probing Rahami’s history of travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and looking for any evidence that he may have been radicalized or trained in bomb-making on those trips. Five other devices were found in a rucksack in Elizabeth, New Jersey, one of which exploded as a bomb squad robot tried to disable it. Gunshots to your police.
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Rahami remains hospitalized. He faces five counts of attempted murder of a police officer.
