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On Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan, a barter disciplinarian ran through a mile-long area of bike path, abrogation eight bodies asleep and 12 injured. He afresh leapt from the vehicle, shouting, “Allahu Akbar!” as he brandished a pellet gun and a paintball gun. Back he banned orders to bead the weapons, NYPD administrator Ryan Nash attempt him in the abdomen and took him into custody.
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors filed agitation accuse adjoin the suspect, 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. In cloister documents, they declared that he was advancing by ISIS and spent months planning an advance that would “inflict best accident adjoin civilians.” Here’s what we apperceive about him so far.
Saipov’s Accomplishments
The Uzbekistani immigrant had lived in Ohio and Florida, and acclimatized in New Jersey aftermost summer. He formed as a barter disciplinarian and for the ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft.
Saipov came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and had a blooming agenda authoritative him a abiding acknowledged resident. ABC Chicago letters that he came beneath the Diversity Visa Program, which provides a action for bodies from countries with few immigrants in the U.S. He larboard home at 22, and never saw his hometown of Tashkent, the basic of Uzbekistan, again.
At the time, he was a abstinent Muslim with dreams of authoritative it in the U.S., according to the New York Times. His ancestors was affluent and he advised at the Tashkent Financial Institute, one of the better universities in Uzbekistan. After admission in 2009, he formed as an accountant in a Tashkent hotel.
Saipov hoped to assignment in the auberge industry already he accustomed in the U.S., but with his abridgement of English, he was clumsy to acquisition a job. Saipov was blockage with his father’s friend, a trucker, in Ohio, and instead anguish up in that profession.
Dilnoza Abdusamatova, 24, told the Washington Column that Saipov backward with her ancestors in Cincinnati for his aboriginal two weeks in the country, afresh relocated to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Abdusamatova’s ancestors was abashed to apprentice in contempo canicule that Saipov had registered his trucking business, Sayf Motors Inc., at their abode in 2011. He acclimated an abode in Cuyahoga Falls to annals addition business, Bright Auto LLC, and access a alliance authorization in 2013.
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Saipov and Nozima Odilova, an immigrant from Uzbekistan about six years his junior, accept three accouchement — two girls and a boy built-in aftermost summer.
Saipov did not assume like an agitator back he aboriginal accustomed in Cuyahoga Falls. Per the Times:
Mr. Saipov admired adorned clothes, a vanity frowned on in bourgeois Islamic circles. He accursed as if he couldn’t advice it. He commonly showed up backward for Friday Prayer at the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent. He displayed alone abecedarian ability of the Quran.
However, Mirrakhmat Muminov, a barter disciplinarian and bounded association activist, said Saipov afflicted over the years, acceptable advancing and growing out his beard. Muminov declared him as addition “with monsters inside.”
“I consistently anticipation abysmal in my body that he would be confined for assault addition or calumniating someone,” Muminov said. “He had a barnyard character.”
Though he had registered two businesses, Saipov mainly collection for added companies. At the end of 2015, he confused the ancestors to Florida, but had a adamantine time award work.
An imam in Florida told the Times he afraid that Saipov was misinterpreting Islam.
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“I acclimated to acquaint him: ‘Hey, you are too abundant emotional. Apprehend books more. Apprentice your adoration first,’” said Abdul, the imam. “He did not apprentice adoration properly. That’s the capital ache in the Muslim community.”
On Tuesday evening, two plainclothes badge admiral interviewed association in a Tampa accommodation circuitous area Saipov already lived. Kyong Eagan, who lives in the complex, told the Daily Beast that Saipov would accompany her home-cooked meals, adage he capital to allotment his country’s aliment with her and gave her some domiciliary accessories back the ancestors confused aftermost summer. “I aloof can’t accept it at all. He was aloof so genuine. I’m aloof so shocked,” she said.
In the spring, Saipov told accompany that he capital to be afterpiece to his wife’s family, who alive in Brooklyn. The ancestors acclimatized in Paterson, New Jersey, and Saipov began active for Uber.
Uber accepted that Saipov collection for the ride-sharing company, and said he had anesthetized a accomplishments check. “We are abashed by this absurd act of violence,” the aggregation said in a statement. “Our hearts are with the victims and their families. We accept accomplished out to law administration to accommodate our abounding assistance.”
ISIS Connection
Over the years, Saipov racked up at atomic nine cartage citations beyond the country as allotment of his job. The best austere was a 2015 accomplished in Missouri for a absurd right-side brake. Months later, a accreditation was issued for his arrest. Saipov was arrested in October 2016, and acquaint a $200 bond. The money was acclimated to pay his accomplished back he bootless to actualization up to a cloister appearance.
However, he had been on the alarm of federal authorities. According to the Times, he came up in an different analysis back he abounding the Florida bells of an Uzbekistani man beneath FBI scrutiny.
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That did not activate a abstracted analysis of Saipov, but authorities now accept he was acceptable radicalized online. According to a bent complaint, FBI agents begin 90 videos and 3,800 photos on Saipov’s phone, abounding of which were ISIS propaganda. This included videos of ISIS fighters killing prisoners and bomb-making instructions. Agents said he was decidedly taken with a video in which ISIS baton Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “questioned what Muslims in the United States and abroad were accomplishing to acknowledge to the killing of Muslims in Iraq.”
The advance carefully mirrored instructions for a agent advance offered in an ISIS annual aftermost November. Prosecutors say Saipov had been planning the advance for about a year. He busy a barter from a Home Depot in Passaic, New Jersey, nine canicule afore the advance and accomplished active it. He additionally ran through the avenue he acclimated to access the burghal while active for Uber.
The complaint says Saipov advised putting ISIS flags on the truck, but absitively it would allure too abundant attention. A agenda begin at the arena apprehend in Arabic, “No god but god and Mohamed is his prophet,” and “Islamic Supplication. It will endure,” apropos to ISIS.
While talking with law-enforcement admiral in his hospital room, Saipov reportedly asked to put up an ISIS banderole in his room, and “stated that he acquainted acceptable about what he had done.”
The Accuse Adjoin Saipov
Saipov was answerable with accouterment actual abutment to a agitator accumulation and committing abandon and abolition of a motor agent consistent in death. He appeared at a audition on Wednesday in a wheelchair, with his easily and anxiety chained. Saipov was provided a Russian interpreter, and adumbrated that he accepted what was accident in the proceeding. He has yet to access a plea.
The agent allegation carries the achievability of the afterlife penalty, and backward on Wednesday night, President Trump tweeted that he believes Saipov should be executed.
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Earlier, Trump said he was accessible to accepting him transferred to Guantanamo Bay. However, the accuse were filed in noncombatant court, and Saipov is not actuality captivated by the aggressive as an “enemy combatant,” as Trump and some added Republican assembly recommended.
This column has been adapted throughout.
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