Trial of man accused of killing 8 people in truck terror attack on NYC bike path begins
Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck on Nov. 1, a day after it was used in an attack in New York.Opening arguments kicked off Monday in the federal trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek immigrant who in 2017 plowed a rented pickup truck on a New York City bike path, killing eight people in its path of destruction.
The prosecution shared opening arguments Monday morning in New York court before a room filled with survivors and relatives of the victims who were killed. He told the FBI after the rampage that he “felt good about what he did” and wanted to kill as many people as possible, according to the criminal complaint. He planned an attack for about a year, the complaint said.In the attack, Saipov rented a white Home Depot pickup truck in Passaic, New Jersey, and drove it into Manhattan where the streets were filling up with Halloween festivities.
Saipov struck a school bus outside Stuyvesant High School, jumped out and shouted “Allahu Akbar” — meaning “God is great” in Arabic and brandished a pellet gun and paintball gun, officials said. He was then confronted by a police officer who shot him in the abdomen, and Saipov was detained and hospitalized.that Saipov left in the truck, claiming the attack was in the name of ISIS.were tourists, five of them Argentine and one Belgian.
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