2017 New York City truck attack
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On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the Hudson River Park's bike path alongside West Street from Houston Street south to Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people, six of whom were foreign tourists, and injured eleven others.
After crashing the truck into a school bus, Saipov exited, apparently wielding two guns (later found to be a
A federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Saipov, who had immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, with eight murders in the aid of racketeering, twelve attempted murders in the aid of racketeering, destruction of a motor vehicle and providing material support for a terrorist organization.[5] This was the second terrorist attack allegedly committed by a winner of the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery following the 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting. After the attack, anti-vehicle bollards were installed on the Hudson River Park bike path. Saipov was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023.
Attack
At 2:06 p.m.
The driver's truck crashed into a school bus that was transporting students with
It was the fifteenth vehicular attack in North America and Europe by jihadist terrorists since 2014, according to New America, a nonpartisan research institution. To date, these attacks had killed a total of 142 people.[11] The incident was considered the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since the September 11 attacks of 2001.[12]
Victims
Country | Number |
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Argentina | 5 |
United States | 2 |
Belgium | 1 |
Total | 8 |
Eight people were killed in the attack,
A sixth member of the Argentine group was hospitalized at
Perpetrator
The perpetrator, 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, was born in
Saipov entered the United States under a
An acquaintance of Saipov since 2010 described him as a "little aggressive", and not very religious when he arrived in the U.S.[32] A friend in Ohio said he was prone to getting into fights and misunderstandings.[12] An imam at the mosque Saipov attended in Tampa said Saipov was devoted to outward observances of Islam and was very critical of American policies regarding Israel.[33] In Paterson, Saipov lived behind and regularly prayed at a local mosque, Masjid Omar (which had been a subject of surveillance by an NYPD dragnet surveillance program on Muslims), during the three months preceding the attack.[34]
One of Saipov's sisters in Uzbekistan, who was in regular contact with him, said he had recently expressed a desire to return to his home country, but that he never had any grievances against the U.S.[35] She also said their mother visited Saipov twice, with the second visit occurring earlier that year, and never noticed any signs of radicalization from him.[36]
ISIL influence
Early reports suggested Saipov was "self-radicalized".
While in custody, Saipov waived his
Legal proceedings
On November 1, 2017, federal prosecutors charged Saipov with
Jury selection began in October 2022,[48][49] and Saipov was found guilty on all murder charges on January 26, 2023.[50][51] On February 14, 2023, the sentencing phase began for Saipov, with the prosecution seeking the death penalty in his case.[52][53] The jury was unable to agree on the death penalty for any of the charges against Saipov.[54][55] Saipov was sentenced to eight consecutive life without parole terms plus two concurrent life terms plus 260 years on May 17, 2023.[56][57][58] He is currently incarcerated at ADX Florence.[59]
Aftermath
Stuyvesant High School, PS 89 Liberty School, and IS 289 Hudson River Middle School were placed in lockdown after reports that shots were heard nearby, for up to three hours following the incident.[60] Several nearby streets were closed to the public, including West, Chambers and Murray Streets, to conduct an investigation, causing traffic jams throughout lower Manhattan. Vehicle and pedestrian activity resumed when the truck was towed the day after the attack.[7][61]
This was the second terrorist attack allegedly committed by a winner of the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, following the 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting committed by Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian.[66][67][68] Trump called for the termination of the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery program. He then ordered the Department of Homeland Security to "step up" the DHS's already extreme vetting policy.[62][63] He cast blame on Chuck Schumer, a Democratic Party senator representing New York, sarcastically calling the lottery scheme "a Chuck Schumer beauty".[69] The program was part of an immigration bill that passed both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support, followed by Republican President George H. W. Bush signing the bill into law in 1990. Schumer introduced a House Bill that helped to create the program.[70][71] Schumer responded to Trump's attack, saying, "I guess it's not too soon to politicize a tragedy."[72] He also accused Trump of dividing the country and of wanting to cut anti-terrorism funding in budget proposals.[73] Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona defended Schumer, saying the proposals of the bipartisan Gang of Eight, including him and Schumer, would have eliminated the Diversity Visa Lottery.[74]
After the attack, several media sources wrote about how easy it was to drive down Hudson River Park's bike lane, either by accident or on purpose.[75][76] Transportation Alternatives had pushed for safety bollards ever since two vehicular incidents resulting in fatalities had occurred on the bike path in 2006, but the city ignored safety concerns and made only aesthetic fixes to the path.[77] City and state officials also started working on a way to improve the bike lane's safety measures,[78][77][76] and two days after the attack, the city started placing temporary concrete barriers on the path. The temporary barriers were installed by November 3 and were replaced with permanent barriers in 2019.[79]
ISIL accepted responsibility for the attack in issue #104 of its newsletter, al-Naba, and called Saipov a "soldier of the Caliphate" who responded to its call to attack "citizens of the Crusader countries involved in the
Less than four hours after the incident, the massive New York's Village Halloween Parade, which started six blocks east of the incident at Sixth Avenue, proceeded as scheduled. Both Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo marched in the parade.[81]
On November 6, a week after the attack,
See also
- 2017 in the United States
- List of terrorist incidents in 2017
- List of terrorist incidents in New York City
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