Alleged Islamic extremist who attacked NYPD cops with machete near Times Square identified
Bickford is only 19 years old.Police have identified Trevor Bickford as the person who attacked NYPD officers with a machete.Two officers working the holiday detail in Times Square were struck in the head with what Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell described as “a large knife” around 10 p.m. on Eighth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Street.
A third officer, Michael Hanna, also a rookie, shot Bickford in the shoulder after he and the other cops were attacked, the sources said.All three officers were expected to recover. But sources said the FBI in Boston has an open case on him and he was on the so-called guardian list because of his radicalization.
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