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The Guardian

The man accused of driving a Home Depot rental truck into a group of pedestrians and cyclists in New York is an Uzbekistan national who lived in New Jersey and drove for Uber.
Details about the 29-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring about a dozen more in a terror attack on Manhattan’s lower west side on Tuesday are still emerging.
Police shot the truck driver in the abdomen after he emerged from the truck brandishing what officials later said was a pellet gun and paintball gun. He has undergone surgery and is in a critical condition in hospital.
As authorities work to piece together the events that led to the deadly attack, some details about Sayfullo Saipov’s life are beginning to surface.
Saipov is reported to have entered the US in 2010 and lived in Ohio, Florida and latterly in Paterson, New Jersey.
Dilfuza Iskhakova, who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, said that Saipov had stayed with her for several months about six years ago after arriving from Uzbekistan.
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“He seemed like a nice guy, but he didn’t talk much,” Iskhakova said.
“He only went to work and came back. He used to work at a warehouse.”
Iskhakova said Saipov had been applying for a green card when she knew him. Ohio state records show he registered a business involving vehicles to her home in May 2011.
Iskhakova said her family had lost contact with Saipov in recent years and she thought he had moved from Ohio to Florida, then to the New York region, and that he now had a wife and two young children.
Eyewitnesses have described hearing Saipov shouting “Allahu akbar” – or “God is great” in Arabic – as he carried out the attack, and numerous outlets have reported that authorities found handwritten notes in Arabic in the truck after the attack. This has not been confirmed by officials.




But Iskhakova said she did not know if Saipov was religious.
“He’s from my country,” she said.
“His father knows my husband, and sent Sayfullo here because he didn’t know anyone.”
Later he moved to Florida and worked as a truck driver, before driving for Uber while living in New Jersey.
Kobiljon Matkarov, 37, an Uzbek immigrant told The New York Times he met Saipov in Fort Myers, Florida, several years ago when Saipov was working as a truck driver.
“He was a very good person when I knew him,” he said.
“He liked the US. He seemed very lucky and all the time he was happy and talking like everything is OK. He did not seem like a terrorist, but I did not know him from the inside.”

Saipov had lived in a flat complex at Tampa, near the Hillsborough River, and The Washington Post reported that on Tuesday evening plain clothes investigators were seen departing the complex.
It is unclear when Saipov moved to New Jersey and began driving for Uber, but it is understood he passed the company’s background check.
The company is in contact with law enforcement and the FBI, and while it is quickly reviewing Saipov’s work history, it said no “related” concerning safety reports had been uncovered.
In a statement a spokesman for Uber said the company was “horrified by this senseless act of violence”.
“Our hearts are with the victims and their families. We have reached out to law enforcement to provide our full help,” the statement read.
Authorities are yet to comment on Saipov’s motivation for the attack. However, The New York Times reported that he was on the radar of federal authorities.
Other media reported that Saipov had been arrested in St Louis, Missouri, last year after he failed to appear in court on a traffic ticket issued in 2015.
A Missouri court record states Saipov appeared in May and entered a guilty plea.


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This undated photo provided by St. Charles County Department of Corrections shows the Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring about a dozen more in a terror attack on Manhattan’s lower west side on Tuesday. Photo: AP

This image made from a video provided by Tawhid Kabir shows the suspect in a deadly attack running across the street with a fake gun in each hand on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in New York. The man mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, before he was shot in the abdomen by police after jumping out of the truck, authorities said. (YouTube/Tawhid Kabir via AP)

‘Act of terror’: suspect in truck kills eight on New York bike path during Halloween

An image taken from Twitter shows what appears to be the suspect who drove a truck onto a New York bike path killing eight. Photo: Twitter

Scene after a gunman emerged from a crashed Home Depot truck and opened fire after apparently plowing down four riders Tuesday afternoon on a Lower Manhattan bike path Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 in Manhattan, N.Y. The New York Police Department reported one man was in custody after initial reports of gunfire set off a mad scramble in the downtown area. Police flooded the area shortly after the first shots were fired around 3 p.m. (James Keivom/New York Daily News/TNS)

Bicycles and debris lie on a bike path after a motorist drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Donald Trump orders tougher vetting for US entrants after New York truck attack kills eight

US President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to bolster the vetting of immigrants coming into the US after an Uzbek man allegedly drove a truck down a bike path in New York, killing eight and injuring almost a dozen more. Photo: Reuters

epaselect epa06300964 Authorities investigate the pickup truck and scene of a terror attack in downtown New York, New York, USA, 31 October Eight people were killed in the incident, and at least 11 were injured when the driver of a pickup truck ran pedestrians and bicyclists down in a bike lane. He then collided with a school bus injuring people including two children in the bus. The driver was taken into custody after being shot by police. The incident is being investigated as a terror attack. EPA-EFE/JASON SZENES

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