A judge has begun questioning a few of the hundreds of prospective jurors summoned for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack five years ago
FILE- A New York City police officer stands next to a body covered under a white sheet near a mangled bicycle along a bike path in New York, Oct. 31, 2017. A judge began questioning, Tuesday, Oct.. 11, 2022, a few of the hundreds of prospective jurors summoned for the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, 34, charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack five years ago.
The government has not yet said whether it will seek the death penalty if Saipov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, is convicted on terrorism charges. Saipov emerged from a truck to strike pedestrians with a pellet gun and a paintball gun and shout an Arabic phrase, “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is Great," authorities said. He was shot by a police officer and arrested along the West Side Highway., Saipov said through an interpreter that he cared about Allah and the holy war being waged by the Islamic State.
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