Truck attack suspect faces terrorism aid charge
Posted Nov 1, 2017 05:51:18 AM.
Last Updated Nov 1, 2017 05:28:41 PM.
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NEW YORK – The Latest on the truck attack on a bike path near the World Trade Center:
An Uzbek immigrant accused of a deadly truck attack on a New York bike path has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.
Suspect Sayfullo Saipov was charged Wednesday in a criminal complaint in the Tuesday afternoon attack that killed eight people near the World Trade Center.
The complaint says he drove the truck down the bike lane intentionally. Investigators say they recovered a cellphone that had Islamic State group propaganda.
A court proceeding is scheduled in federal court. It’s unclear whether the man will appear. He was shot by police and hospitalized.
The man’s lawyers haven’t returned a message seeking comment.
