Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
A Maine man who attacked three New York police officers with a machete in Times Square on New Year’s Eve in 2022 was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Trevor Bickford, who was 19 at the time, said he attacked the officers because he wanted to wage jihad, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. Three officers were injured but survived.
The first officer attacked suffered a fractured skull. The three injured officers spoke in the Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday, including Officer Mickel Hanna, who shot Bickford once in the shoulder and ended the rampage, NBC New York reported. Hanna said that if he didn’t fire, “people could have died that night,” and that he no longer likes being in crowds, the station reported. Bickford said “I’ve left scars,” and “I hope the victims can forgive me,” according to NBC New York.
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