Incredible video footage shows Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old suspect in the Manhattan terrorist attack that left eight dead and several injured on Tuesday, running and waving a fake gun around.
Reports say that he was shot in the stomach by NYPD officer Ryan Nash, who is being called a hero.
Sources told NBC News that a note saying he pledged to the ISIS terrorist group was found in the Home Depot truck he used to attack people.
Saipov, a native of Uzbekistan, came to the United States in 2010. He’s accused to driving a truck on the West Side Highway bike path on Tuesday, officials said.
He also reportedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” before he was shot by police.
Officials told NBC that he rented the Home Depot truck at around 2 p.m. in Passaic, New Jersey, and drove to Manhattan. At 3:05 p.m., he drove the truck onto the bike path.
“A vehicle drove straight down a bicycle path heading south in Manhattan just mowing everything down,” witness Greg Ahl told 1010 WINS radio. “It looks like a vehicle drove down the bicycle path and ran everything over.”
“Today there was a loss of innocent life in lower Manhattan,” NYPD commissioner James O'Neill said Tuesday.