{"id":3169,"date":"2023-01-02T03:19:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T09:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2023-03-14T03:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:16:17","slug":"nyc-machete-attacker-expressed-militant-support-for-islam-may-have-expected-to-die-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"<strong>NYC machete attacker expressed militant support for Islam, may have expected to die, officials say<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three officers assigned to New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in New York City&#8217;s Times Square area were injured by a machete-wielding teenager who expressed militant support for Islam, law enforcement officials said.<br \/>\nThe attack happened shortly after 10 p.m. at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue, just outside checkpoints for the high-security zone set up for celebrants, officials said at a\u00a0news conference\u00a0early Sunday.<br \/>\nThe suspect approached an officer and tried to strike him over the head with the machete, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. He then struck two officers in the head with the blade before he was shot in the shoulder and apprehended by police, Sewell said.<br \/>\nThree law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the investigation said late Sunday that authorities were looking into whether the suspect reached for one of the officers&#8217; service weapons during their takedown. The injured police were out of the hospital and expected to recover.<br \/>\nAuthorities identified the suspect at the\u00a0news conference\u00a0only as a 19-year-old man. Four senior law enforcement officials\u00a0said the man is Trevor Bickford of Wells, Maine.<br \/>\nThe suspect was known to federal agents, who interviewed him in mid-December after a relative alerted them to his revolutionary support for Islam, four law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nypd-officers-injured-machete-attack-times-square-new-years-eve-rcna63855\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three officers assigned to New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in New York City&#8217;s Times Square area were injured by a machete-wielding teenager who expressed militant support for Islam, law enforcement officials said. The attack happened shortly after 10 p.m. at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue, just outside checkpoints for the high-security zone set up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1226,3294,3293,2831,1287],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-attack","tag-islam","tag-machete-raider","tag-new-york","tag-slam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}