Afghan-American Ahmad Khan Rahami apparently kept a low profile.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami – identified in an Federal Bureau of Investigation bulletin just hours earlier as a man wanted in the weekend bombings in New York City and New Jersey – pulled a gun, shot the officer and triggered a running gun battle in the street that ended with Rahami wounded and in custody Monday, authorities said. His brother Mohammad, who had earlier fled from the U.S. to Afghanistan after a local altercation in New Jersey, also travelled to Pakistan while Ahmad was there.
“He’d always talk about his cars”. “Now we will give him incredible hospitalization”.
Rahami’s family lives above First American Fried Chicken in Elizabeth, according to the city’s mayor, Chris Bollwage.
These are some of the questions that have emerged in the wake of the capture of the man suspected of planting bombs in NY and New Jersey over the weekend. It was later found that the apartment is linked to a man wanted for questioning in Saturday night’s Chelsea bombing, which injured 29.
Rahami wasn’t on any terror or no-fly watch lists, a law enforcement official said, but he’d been interviewed by officials for immigration purposes.
She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that five people in the auto were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing case.
Additionally, armed with a search warrant, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and police converged on an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant near the train station before 6 am on Monday.
“This is a criminal, sick act and it’s an idea that is coming from overseas and spilling over into the youth and this demon rage”, said Salaam Ismial, a social worker at Masjid Al-Hadi, a mosque in Elizabeth, and who said he knew Rahami.
“He was really religious [after the trip]”, said Jones. “I’ll bet you that’s why he was on no list”. He also was accused of violating a domestic-violence restraining order in 2012.
Rahami is wanted for questioning in this weekend’s bombings in NY and New Jersey. It turned out her Pakistani passport had expired and the consulate wouldn’t give her an immigrant visa until the passport was renewed, Sires said.
Rahami’s father and two brothers sued the city in 2011 after Elizabeth police said the restaurant stayed open past 10 p.m.in violation of a local ordinance. They quickly reported the find to police, said Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage.
The harassment, the lawsuit alleged, was based largely on the complaints to officials by one neighbor who regularly walked into the restaurant to tell them that “Muslims don’t belong here” and “Muslims are trouble”.
The 28-year-old naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan was being held on $5.2 million bail.
They’ll also likely be looking to leverage his personal relationships to get information, DePaul said.
“He was just very quiet”, said Jorge Vasquez, who owns a business a block over and frequently visited the restaurant.
This undated photo provided by the New Jersey State Police shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of NY and the New Jersey shore t.
No one was injured in the Saturday morning explosion along the route of a running race in Seaside Park, about 60 miles south of Manhattan, New Jersey State Police said.
When an officer woke the sleeping man, Rahami pulled out a gun, fired a bullet into the officer’s bullet-proof vest, and tried to escape.
As the East Coast was rattled by the bombings, a man who authorities say referred to Allah wounded nine people in a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall Saturday before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.
Rahami was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful goal, prosecutors said.
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A judge set bail at $5.2 million.
