Act Daily News
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The suspect within the New Year’s Eve machete assault on three law enforcement officials in New York City has been charged with 4 counts of tried homicide, in line with federal court docket paperwork, along with a number of state prices already lodged in opposition to him.
Trevor Bickford, 19, is charged with one rely of tried homicide of officers and staff of the US authorities and three counts of tried homicide of officers and staff of the US authorities and individuals helping them, in line with the criticism.
The criticism partly contends he supposed to kill military-aged males working for the US authorities and NYPD officers working with the FBI to guard revelers.
“On this past New Year’s Eve, revelers flocked to Times Square to ring in the New Year with friends and family,” US Attorney Damian Williams stated. “But Trevor Bickford allegedly targeted the iconic yearly celebration to carry out a brazen act of violence and hatred in the name of jihad.”
Act Daily News has reached out to the Federal Defenders of New York, which is representing Bickford, for remark.
Bickford was beforehand indicted on greater than a dozen state prices, together with a number of terrorism prices, in line with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Rosemary Vassallo-Vellucci, who represents Bickford in that case, beforehand informed Act Daily News her shopper needs to be presumed harmless.
Federal prosecutors included within the criticism pictures from physique digital camera footage that purportedly reveals Bickford in the course of the assault, putting officers with the knife allegedly used, a kukri.
If convicted on all counts within the federal case, Bickford may resist 80 years in jail, in line with prosecutors.
Prosecutors have stated the suspect traveled to New York “in order to kill people and carry out jihad.”
Bickford entered the safety space of the Times Square checkpoint on New Year’s Eve, the place he allegedly pulled out a machete, struck an officer with the blade and one other officer within the head with the deal with, authorities have stated. He then swung the blade at a 3rd officer, who shot the suspect within the shoulder, in line with the NYPD.
Bickford, in line with a prison criticism, informed authorities throughout his interview that he stated “(Allahu) Akbar” earlier than he walked up and hit the officer over the pinnacle with the weapon.
Prosecutors in that case alleged that the suspect stated that each one authorities officers had been his goal, since they “cannot be proper Muslims because the United States government supports Israel.”
The three officers had been hospitalized in steady situation and have since been launched.
The suspect earlier had caught the eye of the FBI, and he was interviewed by federal brokers final month in Maine after he stated he wished to journey abroad to assist fellow Muslims and was keen to die for his faith, a number of regulation enforcement officers have stated.