shot by a police officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHe is in a significant amount of pain,\u201d Mr. Patton said.<\/p>\n
The grievous injuries to victims, the scope of the inquiry and Mr. Saipov\u2019s path toward extremism all began coming into view on Wednesday. The F.B.I., after saying it was trying to learn more about a second Uzbek man in connection with the attack, later announced that investigators had found the man, Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, 32, in New Jersey. It was not clear why federal authorities wanted to question him in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n
The authorities questioned Mr. Saipov after he waived his Miranda rights at a Manhattan hospital, the complaint says. They were also questioning Mr. Saipov\u2019s wife, Nozima Odilova, who was cooperating, law enforcement officials said. The couple live in Paterson, N.J., and have three children.<\/p>\n
As investigators looked into whether Mr. Saipov\u2019s Uzbek contacts may have handed him off to an ISIS operative, they pieced together parts of his past, law enforcement officials said. He attended a wedding in Florida of an Uzbek man who was under scrutiny by the F.B.I. But his attendance didn\u2019t trigger a separate investigation of him, the officials said.<\/p>\n
Investigators were still looking into whether Mr. Saipov had links to other federal counterterrorism inquiries.<\/p>\n
On Mr. Saipov\u2019s cellphone, F.B.I. agents found 90 videos, including of ISIS fighters killing prisoners and of instructions for making an explosive device, according to the criminal complaint. They also found 3,800 images, among them some of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. The complaint said Mr. Saipov reported being inspired in particular by a video in which Mr. al-Baghdadi \u201cquestioned what Muslims in the United States and elsewhere were doing to respond to the killing of Muslims in Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n
The F.B.I. was uncovering details that sent agents on a far-ranging chase for leads.<\/p>\n
But several crucial facts remain unclear. It is not known if the F.B.I. is still investigating the Uzbek man whose wedding Mr. Saipov attended. And as investigators built out concentric circles of his associates, they are still looking at whether Mr. Saipov had direct connections with ISIS operatives.<\/p>\n
Even so, the federal complaint filed against Mr. Saipov said he hewed closely to instructions last November in an ISIS magazine, Rumiyah, for a vehicle attack. After plowing his Home Depot rental truck down a bike path along the Hudson River that teemed with pedestrians and cyclists and crashing into a school bus, the complaint said, he jumped out of the truck, yelled \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d (Arabic for \u201cGod is great\u201d) and waved a paintball gun and a pellet gun.<\/p>\n
The Rumiyah instructions called for followers to carry secondary weapons so they could continue an attack after crashing the vehicle, and Mr. Saipov did so, the complaint said: He had a bag of knives in the truck \u201cbut was unable to reach them before exiting.\u201d There was also a stun gun on the floor of the truck near the driver\u2019s seat, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Investigators found a handwritten note in Arabic and English 10 feet from the driver\u2019s side door, as the front of the truck sat smashed in, with soil strewn across the street that had been knocked out of a nearby planter. According to the complaint, the note detailed a pledge that echoed language used by ISIS: \u201cIslamic Supplication. It will endure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe appears to have followed almost to a T the instructions that ISIS has put out,\u201d John J. Miller, the New York Police Department\u2019s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, said at a news conference on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Those who knew Mr. Saipov said he had been turning toward extremism for years since arriving in the United States in 2010.<\/p>\n
Mirrakhmat Muminov, a truck driver and community activist in Stow, Ohio, said Mr. Saipov became aggressive and grew out his beard during his three years there. Mr. Muminov said he grew concerned about Mr. Saipov\u2019s temper, including how heated he became when he discussed American policies regarding Israel.<\/p>\n
Mr. Saipov created more unease when he moved to Florida. Abdul, an imam at a Tampa mosque who spoke on the condition that only his first name be used because he feared reprisals from other radicals, said he worried Mr. Saipov was misinterpreting Islam and urged him to calm down and study the religion.<\/p>\n
In the two months since Mr. Saipov \u201cdecided to use a truck in order to inflict maximum damage against civilians,\u201d the complaint said, he began plotting assiduously. Nine days beforehand, he rented a Home Depot pickup truck so he could practice making turns, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
He also rehearsed the route from New Jersey, over the George Washington Bridge and down the West Side of Manhattan in an Uber car he drove in the days before the incident, a law enforcement official said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he asked to rent the Home Depot truck for a short while, though he never intended to return it, the complaint said. He planned to drive all the way south to the Brooklyn Bridge, but he made it only as far as Chambers Street.<\/p>\n
By the time his rampage ended, six people had been killed and two others would later die. Nine people remained hospitalized from injuries on Wednesday, officials said, four of them critically injured but in stable condition. The injuries ranged from the amputation of multiple limbs to serious head, neck and back trauma.<\/p>\n
The complaint said Mr. Saipov wanted to display ISIS flags on the truck and decided against it to avoid drawing attention. But lying in his hospital bed, he continued his quest, the complaint said: He asked law enforcement officials to put up the ISIS flag and \u201cstated that he felt good about what he had done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reporting was contributed by Rukmini Callimachi, Sarah Maslin Nir, Eric Schmitt, Michael Schwirtz, Ashley Southall, Vivian Wang and Ben Weiser. Susan C. Beachy and Doris Burke contributed research.<\/p>\n
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