A notebook and other evidence suggested Ibrahim Kayumi and Emir Balat had been planning some kind of an attack for at least a week, sources told ABC News.
Thursday, March 12, 2026 12:27AM, considered other targets before driving into Manhattan late Saturday morning with homemade bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Investigators searching a storage unit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi and 18-year-old Emir Balat are from, discovered a notebook in which the suspects wrote about soft targets like shopping centers, the sources said.
No specific target was mentioned. The NYPD said the teens brought improvised explosives to Gracie Mansion where an anti-Muslim protest clashed with a counter demonstration.Gracie Mansion hero officers speak out after stopping men accused of trying to set off bombs The notebook and other evidence suggested Balat and Kayumi had been planning some kind of an attack for at least a week, the sources said. Video ABC News obtained appeared to show one of the teens entering a fireworks store in Penndel, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 2, and making a purchase. "The single item purchased was a 20 feet length of consumer fireworks safety fuse. The total spend was under $7," Phantom Fireworks' William Weimer said in an email to ABC News that identified the man in the video as Emir Balat.in the storage unit that contained explosive residue. Balat and Kayumi are being held on a terrorism charge, use of a weapon of mass destruction and other offenses. They have not yet entered a plea.
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