The explosions did not cause any fatalities, but the Chelsea explosion injured 29 people. Investigators scrambled Sunday to find out wh.
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WABC-TV footage showed a man believed to be 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher in Linden, New Jersey.
The Afghani-born terror suspect in Saturday’s NY and New Jersey bombings has been captured after a bloody shootout with police.
Although the motive for Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan isn’t clear, New York City Mayor Bill de Blassio says they now suspect terrorism. Then, authorities said, Rahami started firing his gun along Elizabeth Avenue, blowing out the windshield of Hammer’s police auto.
Authorities in New Jersey also believe that Rahami could be linked to the explosion of a bomb on Saturday morning in the New Jersey town of Seaside Park before the start of a footrace in which some 5,000 people were scheduled to compete.
Gordon Harris, one of the victims of the blast in NY, told ABC News that he was “encouraged police have a suspect in custody”.
Indian-American attorney Ravi Batra told PTI that Bains “dared to honour his Oath of Citizenship to protect & defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic – and it’s turns out that the Chelsea Pressure Cooker Bomber suspect, a naturalised citizen, is caught by another immigrant, an Indian-American Hero-Sikh”.
What finally led authorities to Rahami was Sunday night’s discovery of a backpack in Elizabeth that included multiple bombs.
United States authorities said the motive of the attacks was unclear, but officials quickly identified them as terror-related.
Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged with five counts of attempted murder.
Federal charges in the bombings have yet to be filed. Messages left with phone numbers listed for family members weren’t returned. The remaining four were to be taken to an Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory at Quantico, Virginia, Elizabeth Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said. Still, some of the family restaurant’s customers said Rahami was more likely to talk about his interest in cars than to mention faith.
William Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director in NY, said there are no indications Rahami was on law enforcement’s radar at the time of the bombings. Authorities were trying to determine if they were connected. The activity came hours after one of five devices found at the nearby Elizabeth train station exploded while a bomb squad robot attempted to disarm it.
Cellphones were discovered at the site of both the NY and New Jersey bombings, but no Tannerite residue was identified in the New Jersey bomb remnants, in which a black powder was detected, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to comment on the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Rahami was apprehended by police after a shootout with law enforcement earlier Monday. More officers joined in a battle that spilled into the street. None of the officers suffered life-threatening injuries. Amtrak said 2,400 passengers were affected and trains were being brought in to other stations for people to get other transportation.
No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said.
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President Barack Obama, speaking in NY, said officials did not believe there was a connection between events in NY and New Jersey and a stabbing attack in Minnesota, also on Saturday, in which nine people were injured.
