Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect wanted by police in relation to the bomb blast in the NY neighbourhood of Chelsea on Saturday night and an earlier explosion in New Jersey, has been captured following a swift manhunt and shootout with police.
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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.
After bombings in NY and New Jersey, investigators say they want to talk with one man: Ahmad Khan Rahami.
Two Linden police officers were injured in the gunfire exchange, one in the torso and the other in the hand.
NYPD commissioner James O’Neill said police also want to speak with Rahami’s contacts.
Investigators believe there are more people involved in the NY and New Jersey bombing plots than just Rahami, but they do not have a good idea who those people are, two USA officials told Reuters.
An intense series of incidents that began when a pipe bomb exploded on the Jersey Shore came to an end Monday afternoon when authorities in New Jersey apprehended a man suspected to be behind the explosion in New Jersey and the explosion that took place Saturday night in New York City.
Late Sunday night, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station. No one was injured.
The president said that the U.S. would continue to go after so-called Islamic State (IS).
At a press conference in Manhattan Monday afternoon, William Sweeney, head of the FBI’s NY bureau, said there was no indication of a larger terror cell connected to Rahami and authorities are not looking at any other individuals at this time.
In doing so, investigators believe they inadvertently disabled the explosive, sources said.
“We’re going to have more security personnel than ever assembled over this next week during the UN General Assembly”, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on CNN.
“Mr Rahami also sustained shots and an ambulance has taken him away”, Bollwage said.
According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, the Rahami family said Elizabeth police officers repeatedly shut down their family restaurant and discriminated against them because of their religion, NJ.com reported. “We all have a role to play as citizens in making sure that we don’t succumb to that fear”. Both said on Monday that appeared to be changing.
“Folks around here, you know, they don’t get scared”.
His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where his family lives.
In attempting to disarm the explosive, two robots sent in by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at 12:30 a.m. Monday morning clipped wire, accidentally detonating it. In 2011, the city council voted to close the restaurant at 10 p.m. because of “all the people hanging out there” around the clock, Elizabeth Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said Monday.
“He’s a very friendly guy, very Americanised”.
William Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director in NY, said there were no indications Rahami was on law enforcement’s radar at the time of the bombings.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said the United States needed to work with its allies to combat global terrorism and that the country should launch an “intelligence surge” to detect attacks before they are carried out.
She would not 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 vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
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The blast occurred on the same day an explosion went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and a man stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall. The race was canceled.
