The man suspected of killing eight people with a rented truck has been identified as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old with ties to Florida, Ohio, and New Jersey.
The man suspected of killing at least eight people and injuring more than a dozen others when he plowed a truck through a bike path in Manhattan on Tuesday has been identified as Sayfullo H. Saipov, according to multiple reports.
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The 29-year-old was born in Uzbekistan and came to the US in 2010, NBC News reported. Saipov has lived in Ohio, Florida, and most recently in Paterson, New Jersey, with his wife and three children, ABC News reported.
A person by the name of Sayfulloh Saipov is listed as an agent for Sayf Motors Inc., a trucking company in Ohio. It was registered May 18, 2011.
According to court records, Saipov was stopped for several offenses in multiple states. Last October, police pulled over 28-year-old Saipov in Tampa, Missouri, for a traffic offense. He gave them a Florida address and then failed to appear for his court date in November and a warrant was issued for his arrest in April. He paid the $200 bond to avoid arrest.
In a 2012 case related to his vehicle not meeting service criteria, he was represented by a lawyer who caters to truckers and other commercial drivers. In those stops, he gave officers a Paterson, New Jersey address, NJ.com reported.
Videos and photos from the scene of the attack Tuesday show the suspect dodging cars in the street after plowing his rental truck into pedestrians and crashing into a school bus.
After crashing into the bus, Saipov then got out of the truck "brandishing two handguns" and was shot by a police officer in the abdomen, New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said.
Officials have not publicly identify the suspect, who was taken into custody and hospitalized, but confirmed he is 29 years old. Police recovered a paintball gun and a pellet gun from the scene.
The attacker shouted "allahu akbar" — "God is great" in Arabic — as he got out of the truck, O'Neill said, which "enabled us to label this a terrorist event."
A now-deleted Facebook profile for Sayfulloh Saipov stated that he lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied at Moliya, an institution in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The most recent photos on the page were from 2013 and show a young man in a car and a Toyota Avalon with an Ohio license plate that reads "AL KARIN."
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