The Tuesday New York Attack suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, is an Uber driver who lives in New Jersey having emigrated from Uzbekistan seven years ago, precisely, 2010.
During the attack, Eight people were killed and 11 injured. Report has it that a pickup driver mowed down cyclists and pedestrians near the World Trade Center, before striking a school bus.
Map Plan of how it all happened
The driver was shot in the abdomen by the New York police officers after he jumped out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand and shouting what witnesses said was “Allahu Akbar!,” Arabic for “God is great”.
Saipov underwent surgery and he is expected to survive the abdominal injury sustained. NBC News quoted law enforcement sources as saying the attacker left a note in the truck claiming he committed the attack on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Suspect Trying to flee
He has a Florida driver’s licence but was reportedly living with family in Paterson, New Jersey, sources told local media.
Residents in the area said that Saipov had a wife and two young children. known and seen to be “very friendly” and was an Uber driver, a friend of the suspect was quoted as saying by the New York Post.
Kobiljon Matkarov, 37, told the newspaper he met Saipov in Florida five years ago and the two bonded over their background.
Via a phone conversation from his home in Miamisburg in Ohio, Matkarov told the New York Post that “He is very good guy, he is very friendly… he is like little brother… he look at me like big brother, My kids like him too, he is always playing with them. He is playing all the time.”
US president Donald Trump branded the attacker a “very sick and deranged person”. Trump further stated “We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!” he said.
