{"id":3291,"date":"2023-01-03T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:06:19","slug":"nyc-machete-attack-man-arrested-on-attempted-murder-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"<strong>NYC machete attack: Man arrested on attempted murder charges<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York\u2019s Times Square on New Year\u2019s Eve was arrested on charges of attempting to murder police officers, authorities said Monday as they continued to\u00a0investigate whether he was motivated by Islamic extremism.<br \/>\nTrevor Bickford, 19, also faces attempted assault charges from the attack that injured two officers at the edge of the high-security zone where throngs of new year\u2019s revelers were gathered, the New York Police Department said in a news release.<br \/>\nBickford, who lives in Wells, Maine, remained hospitalized Monday with a gunshot wound to the shoulder from police fire during the confrontation. He was awaiting arraignment, and it wasn\u2019t immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could speak to the allegations. The Associated Press left messages for his relatives.<br \/>\nA law enforcement official familiar with the matter told the AP on Sunday that investigators believe Bickford traveled to New York City earlier in the week. They are examining whether he made the trip specifically to attack police at the Times Square festivities, the official said.<br \/>\nNew York City police and federal officials are still trying to ascertain a motive, and investigators are reviewing Bickford\u2019s online postings, which included some mentions of Islamic extremist views, the official said. The official could not publicly discuss details about the ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-new-years-attacker-arrested-b3df1ecabe7183ddda6af3f38420d6f4\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York\u2019s Times Square on New Year\u2019s Eve was arrested on charges of attempting to murder police officers, authorities said Monday as they continued to\u00a0investigate whether he was motivated by Islamic extremism. Trevor Bickford, 19, also faces attempted assault charges from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1840,1226,3429,3428,2927,1237,3271],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-attempted-murder","tag-machete","tag-new-york-city","tag-police","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}