These are among 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.
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Investigation is underway to determine if Rahami had help to carry out the explosions.
Three law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press Ahmad Khan Rahami provided investigators with a wealth of clues that led to his arrest 50 hours after the first blast. The FBI interviewed Rahami again later and the father reiterated his statements.
Two law enforcement officers were wounded in the gunfight, as was Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized USA citizen who lives in Elizabeth.
Rahami was arrested Monday after a shootout with police officers in Linden, New Jersey.
“A lot of technology was involved in this, but a lot of good, old-fashioned police work, too”, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.
The official says investigators recovered his fingerprints from the scene.
Monday afternoon, after undergoing surgery at a Newark hospital for his wound, Rahimi was charged with five counts of attempted murder and two gun charges. It wasn’t clear if he’d retained an attorney as of Monday night.
Is that where he got his idea for the two bombs in NY and at least five in various places in New Jersey over the last weekend?
Later that day a knife-wielding man injured eight people at a shopping mall in Minnesota, before he was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. Authorities are investigating the stabbings as a possible terrorist attack but have not drawn any connection between the bloodshed there and the bombings.
Ahmad Rahami’s father says he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago when his son was acting violently.
“I will bring an end to these senseless acts of violence”, Trump said. The lawsuit was terminated in 2012 because one of the brothers, Mohammad K. Rahami, had pleaded guilty to blocking police from enforcing restrictions on the restaurant.
Flee Jones, who claimed to have known Rahami since they were teenagers, told reporters that he became more religious, started growing a beard and dressed differently after he returned from Afghanistan in 2014.
To neighbors and customers of his family’s storefront chicken takeout, Ahmad Khan Rahami was a friendly, quiet presence behind the counter who liked talking about cars and was generous with free food.
“The older man, the dad, was a very nice guy”. “That’s what’s so scary”.
Mark Makela/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesSEASIDE PARK, NJ – SEPTEMBER 17: (L-R) Husband and wife, Joseph and Rosalia, 77, discuss the “pipe bomb-style device” explosion near the site on September 17, 2016 in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
No one was injured in the other blasts.
A second unexploded device was found close to the scene of the NY blast – apparently packed with ball bearings, Christmas lights and an explosive, Tannerite.
The tavern keeper alerted law enforcement.
Old-fashioned flip phones were found on the devices in Manhattan and in Seaside Park, law enforcement officials close to the investigation told NBC 4 NY.
Evan Perez, CNN’s justice correspondent, said authorities would be looking at whom Rahami was meeting and associating with when he was overseas and whether they could have taught him to make a bomb. Five people were questioned at length, but Sweeney said none had been charged.
“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.
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After being captured on Monday, Rahami was pictured on a stretcher being taken into an ambulance, with a bloodied bandage on his right arm and moving his head from side to side with his eyes open. The officer was saved by his bulletproof vest. The officers’ injuries weren’t life-threatening.
