A 19-year-old man who attacked cops with a machete on New 12 months was charged on Monday. (Representational)
New York:
A 19-year-old man who attacked cops with a machete on New 12 months’s Eve in Manhattan was charged on Monday with assault and tried homicide, the New York Police Division mentioned.
The fees have been introduced towards Trevor Bickford, who police say attacked three officers simply outdoors the Instances Sq. safety zone the place New Yorkers gathered by the tens of 1000’s on New 12 months’s Eve.
The assailant hit two officers on the pinnacle, with out inflicting life-threatening harm, earlier than one other officer used his service weapon to wound him within the shoulder.
Bickford is from Wells, a small coastal city in Maine, the New York Police Division mentioned, with out offering additional particulars.
In line with US media, Bickford just lately exhibited indicators of Islamist radicalization and should have sought to commit a suicide assault.
He was carrying a diary during which he had expressed his need to hitch the Afghan Taliban and die as a martyr, CNN mentioned, citing nameless sources.
The FBI had questioned him in mid-December after one among his relations warned the bureau of his jihadist statements, NBC Information reported.
An FBI counterintelligence unit is concerned within the investigation, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell mentioned at a information convention Sunday.
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