Authorities questioned several people early Monday after auto stop in Brooklyn as they worked to determine if there is a connection between an explosion that rocked a bustling New York City neighborhood, an unexploded pressure-cooker device found blocks away, an earlier pipe bomb blast at a New Jersey shore town or explosive devices found across the state near a train station.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami was wounded in a gunbattle with Linden, New Jersey, police that erupted when he was discovered sleeping in a bar doorway.
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.
Authorities say two Linden officers were wounded trying to arrest Rahami.
Rahami ordered citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters on eBay and had them delivered to a Perth Amboy, New Jersey, business where he worked until September 12, the court complaints said.
Rahami was ultimately shot in the shoulder a short while later, as was a police officer, after he fled the area and was cornered by police.
Rahami wasn’t on any terror or no-fly watch lists, though he had been interviewed for immigration purposes traveling between the US and Afghanistan, one of the law enforcement officials said. “I’m just so proud of what I saw”.
A New York Police Department (NYPD) robot retrieves an unexploded pressure cooker bomb on 27th Street, hours after an explosion nearby in New York September 18, 2016.
Rahami should be considered “armed and unsafe”, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in one of a series of TV appearances minutes after the release of the photo.
The pipe bomb that exploded Saturday in Seaside Park went off before a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors.
A federal law enforcement official says three bombs found in NY and New Jersey over the weekend had one component in common: a flip-style cellphone.
Officials said they have no other suspects at large but cautioned they are still investigating.
Here’s a look at the numbers behind terrorist attacks in the United States. At the same time, five people who were pulled over in a vehicle Sunday night were being questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials said.
No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said. Another unexploded pressure-cooker bomb was found blocks away.
The FBI has said Rahami apparently was not on its radar at the time of the bombing. The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. No one was injured in the Jersey blast.
Also on Saturday, a man stabbed and injured nine people at a mall in the northern USA state of Minnesota before a police officer fatally shot him.
Late Monday, Rahami was charged in New Jersey with five counts of attempted murder of police officers in connection with the shootout.
Rahami was arrested this morning after trading gunfire with police in Linden, N.J., a town not far from his family home in Elizabeth, where last night police found a bag full of pipe bombs near an NJ Transit station.
“He sent an email to my office from Pakistan, and he had said to me that he had been in Pakistan since April 2013 and we received the email on March 2014”, Sires told CNN. The organization and the Afghan Embassy in Washington condemned the bombings.
Early Monday, FBI agents swarmed an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant in Elizabeth that’s tied to Rahami.
NY went on full alert, deploying almost 1,000 extra state police and National Guardsmen to airports, bus terminals and subway stations as President Barack Obama arrived in the city ahead of Tuesday’s opening of the UN General Assembly. The lawsuit was terminated in 2012 after Mohammad Rahami pleaded guilty to blocking police from enforcing the restrictions on the restaurant.
Ryan McCann, of Elizabeth, said that he often ate at the restaurant and recently began seeing the younger Rahami working there more.
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He called on Americans to show the world “we will never give in to fear”.
