An Individual, Not A Truck, Kills 8 In NYC Terrorist Attack

By Brandon Curtis

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK — A terrorist made the decision to rent a truck and drive it down the sidewalk, hitting anything and anyone in his path. It’s the worst terrorist attack in NYC since 9/11.

Eight people were killed and at least 12 others injured.

[THE TERRORIST], 29, rented a pickup truck from a Home Depot in New Jersey at 2:06 p.m. on Tuesday before crossing into Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge, the police said in first public timeline provided by authorities. At 3:04 p.m., a camera caught him driving onto a bike path alongside the Hudson River, where the police said he appeared to be targeting pedestrians and cyclists as he mowed people down.

After crashing into a school bus near Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, he jumped out with a pellet gun and a paintball gun and shouted “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” the authorities said. Investigators found a number of knives in and around the truck, the police said. And near the truck was a handwritten note with a few lines of Arabic indicating allegiance to the Islamic State, law enforcement officials said.

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Source:: Concealed Nation