Update:
Sources identify suspect as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, CBS News reported.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect to CBS News as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, a 29-year-old man from Tampa, Florida. He came to the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan.
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Update:
Multiple law enforcement sources say the NY incident is being investigated as terrorism, CNN has reported.
Separately four law enforcement sources said witnesses reported the suspect was yelling “Allahu Akbar” — which means God is greatest.
One law enforcement source said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is taking over as lead of the investigation.
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At least 6 people are dead and others injured after a truck drove onto a bike path in lower Manhattan in New York City in what law enforcement officials called “a deliberate act.”
A gunman opened fire from a Home Depot truck that apparently plowed down four riders on a bike path Tuesday off the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, eyewitnesses said.
The NYPD reported one man was in custody after initial reports of gunfire set off a mad scramble in the downtown area.
Witnesses reported seeing a gunman firing from inside a Home Depot tuck, and video showed a truck from the home improvement store sitting on a median.
“He shot about 15 times toward the pier and down West St.” one witness told the Daily News. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries, although witnesses said two bodies were covered with blankets at the scene.
The smell of gun powder hung in the air as police shut down the West Side Highway in mid-afternoon on Halloween.
Mayor de Blasio was briefed on the situation, and confirmed there was no active threat.
Witness Frank Brito, 45, told the News he saw two trucks crash into each other and then a heavy set man get out of one in a blue tracksuit and chase someone, firing five or six times.
Reports of an active shooter came in about 3 p.m.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are heading to the scene.
The FBI is also responding to the incident.
Police warned that New Yorkers should expect many emergency personnel in the area.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill will be conducting a media briefing at 1 Police Plaza at 5:15 p.m. ET.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
BREAKING NEWS: Box Truck Mows Down Several Pedestrians In Manhattan | Here’s What We Know – https://t.co/mzvV2F3f8g pic.twitter.com/gCwS5KgT5q
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 31, 2017
BREAKING IMAGE: One body lays covered in Lower Manhattan…. pic.twitter.com/byLvltLuCq
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 31, 2017
what you’re saying is true, but that doesn’t negate the validity of the other comments. how long do you think it’ll be before a terrorist from the countries on Trump’s list tries something similar, ch”v’sh?
so now this sub-human will be given the best medical treatment the city has to offer and then go to jail for decades, all on your dime and mine! it makes me sick. I’m not a big proponent of the death penalty because one mistake or prejudiced judge is one too many; but in this case where there were dozens of witnesses to the ramming and to the calculated terrorist shriek of A A, I believe this literal embodiment of evil forfeited the right to life. he deserves capital punishment, not lifelong taxpayer support. who knows? a publicized execution might… Read more »
why do we have to see the face of a rosho on col? u .brown uk
This man is from uzbekistan. Not a country on the list. Please get your facts straight.
He wanted to clean out the USA from these insane killer terrorists and our dumb Americans wouldn’t allow him. So here we have ’em spreading their gunfire on the innocents. Shame on the dumb naive American mentality.
NOW SAY TRUMPS POLICY OF KICKING OUT THESE ISLAMIC IMMIGRANTS AND STOPPING THEM COMING IN ARE DERANGED
BS”D NYC sanctuary city
The PLO is the first terrorist organization to use ramming attacks as a form of Terror. When that paratactic was adopted beyond the land of Israel Isis thanked the “Palestinians” for introducing them to this form of Terror.