On October 31, 2017, Saipov, an Uzbek national age 33, is charged with carrying out a terrorist act in Lower Manhattan, New York City. He struck a packed cycling route with a rental pickup truck, killing eight people and injuring many more.
He was shot by police after the incident, brought into jail, and then charged; his last hearing was held on Monday, March 13, 2023. It was claimed that before carrying out the act, he swore allegiance to ISIS after being influenced by its propaganda.
Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov’s mugshot from the NYC Bike Path
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Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov struck runners and cyclists on the Hudson River Park bike route in Lower Manhattan on October 31, 2017, murdering eight people and injuring 12, including six foreign visitors.
Saipov left the truck after it collided with a school bus brandishing what at first glance looked to be two firearms, but it was subsequently discovered that they were just a paintball gun and a pellet pistol. He was shot by a policeman and taken into custody. The vehicle included a banner and a pledge of loyalty to the terrorist organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Saipov, an immigrant to the US from Uzbekistan in 2010, was charged with eight killings by a federal grand jury. In addition, he was accused of participating in terrorism, wrecking a car, and attempting to kill twelve others.
This event was the second terrorist assault that Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery winners are suspected of carrying out; the first being the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport in 2002. Anti-vehicle bollards were put in place on the cycling route at Hudson River Park after the assault.
Since the 2001 assaults on September 11th, this act is thought to have been the deadliest terrorist attack. It was part of a string of assaults by Islamic terrorists using vehicles that have occurred in Europe and North America since 2014.
After escaping the death penalty, Sayfullo Saipov was sentenced to life in prison.
The jury spared Saipov, who carried out the 2017 Halloween terrorist attack in New York City, the death sentence. On Monday during the discussions for the punishment phase, the jury was unable to reach a consensus. They admitted that Saipov had planned and premeditated the attack extensively for ISIS before he conducted it.
However, they did not all concur that he was likely to engage in violent behavior while incarcerated or create any issues in the future. Saipov will be imprisoned in ADX in Colorado for the rest of his life without the chance of being released. In the vehicle assault on a cycling path along the Hudson River, he was found guilty in January of murdering eight people and trying to kill another 18, according to the verdict.
Information about Sayfullo Saipov’s wife and children
Before being detained in 2017, Saipov married Nozima Odilova, and the two shared a home with their kids. Three of Odilova and Saipov’s children are theirs, but no details about them have been made public. According to the reports, Odilova was barely 19 years old when the pair got married. Saipov was defended by his wife, who praised him as a “very good person.”
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