New York police officials say 19-year-old Trevor Bickford wanted to join the Taliban and die a martyr when he attacked police officers.
on Monday reported Bickford allegedly left Maine with “several thousand dollars in cash” and his machete in early December, arriving by train in New York last Thursday.
Bickford allegedly spent Friday night in a Bowery hotel, made a “large donation in accordance with the Muslim tenets of charity” at the Bowery mission, and then took a subway to Queens with a sleeping bag and some food to prepare for his assault, which specifically targeted police officers.Bickford was “at peace” with getting injured or killed, because he “took comfort in knowing he was fighting for Islam.
Bickford’s diary also reportedly included a standard jihadi farewell letter to his mother, in which he wrote: “I fear greatly you will not repent to Allah and therefore I hold hope in my heart that a piece of you believes so that you may be taken out of the hellfire.”report, Bickford was an honors student who began to “spiral downward” after his father died from a drug overdose in 2018.
A suspect with possible Islamic extremism ties is in custody after three police officers were injured in a machete attack near Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
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