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LOWER MANHATTAN, New York --
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Prosecutors said 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov was aggressive by ISIS videos he had watched on his cellphone. He started planning the advance about a year ago while in the U.S. - and two months ago, he absitively to use a truck.
Video and still images from cartage and surveillance cameras forth the avenue of the advance appearance Saipov collection the busy Home Depot auto barter anxiously - and at a abstinent acceleration - until he entered the bike aisle at Houston Artery in Lower Manhattan and accelerated.
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The about one-mile-long advance that dead eight bodies and afflicted about a dozen others spanned added than a mile afore the doubtable comatose into a academy bus and ran away. As he coiled two affected guns, an NYPD administrator attempt him in the hip. He's accepted to survive.
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Eyewitness News acquired video taken by a Stuyvesant High Academy apprentice that shows the disciplinarian active accidental about in the street, in amid casual cars, dressed in aphotic accouterment and accustomed the weapons.
This photo shows him in badge aegis afterward the incident:
Investigators said Saipov busy a barter on October 22 -- nine canicule afore the bike aisle advance in Lower Manhattan -- so that he could convenance authoritative turns.
Saipov alike planned to drive about with ISIS flags on the truck, but absitively adjoin it to not draw absorption to himself, cloister abstracts said.
While in the hospital afterwards his capture, he asked to fly an ISIS banderole in his hospital allowance and said "he acquainted acceptable about what he had done."
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Following the attack, admiral recovered assorted items through their investigation. The two affected accoutrements Saipov was allegedly accustomed were articular as a paintball gun and a pellet gun. From central the rental truck, admiral additionally recovered three knives, a wallet with a Florida driver's license, two cellphones, and a amaze gun.
A handwritten agenda board begin was 10 anxiety from the driver's aperture of the barter and independent both Arabic and English. The Arabic allocation of the agenda said "No God but God and Muhammad is his Prophet" and "Islamic Supplication. It will endure." "It will endure" refers to ISIS.
BEFORE THE ATTACK
Officials say Saipov entered the United States through JFK Airport from Uzbekistan in 2010.
He came beneath what is alleged the 'Diversity Visa Program,' which offers a action for bodies from countries with few immigrants in America.
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He had a blooming agenda that accustomed abiding acknowledged residence. Afterwards entering the country, he reportedly went from Ohio to Tampa, Florida and again to Paterson, New Jersey, area he lived with his wife and three accouchement for several years.
Saipov was additionally the registered approved abettor for a brace of Ohio-based trucking companies: Sayf Motors Inc. in Cincinnati, and Bright Auto LLC in Cuyahoga Falls.
Uber accepted that Saipov had formed as an Uber driver, and the aggregation said he had anesthetized a accomplishments analysis but has back been banned from the app.
"We are abashed by this absurd act of violence," an Uber agent 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."
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