The Hudson River Park Bike Path was strewn with bodies and mangled bicycles after Tuesday's terrorist attack that killed eight and wounded eleven more. (Photo: Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press)
Manhattan
By Geoffrey Croft
A terrorist plowed into unsuspecting Hudson River Park bike path users killing eight and wounding eleven more in what officials called a terrorist attack.
The horrifying incident occurred Tuesday afternoon around 3:00 when the driver of a rented Home Depot pick up truck entered the popular bike path at West Houston St. and drove straight down the path. He began hitting pedestrians and cyclists as he headed south.
The vehicle stopped less than a mile later when the driver crashed into a school bus on Chambers and West Street across from Stuyvesant High School.
The driver got out of the vehicle and was confronted by police after waving what appeared to be firearms. After the suspect did not comply with orders to drop the weapons an officer opened fire, striking him in the stomach.
The rampage left bodies and mangled bicycles strewn along the bike path along West Street.
Map: NY Times
Five of the victims killed were Argentine tourists from Santa Fe Province who were in New York for a 30-year high school reunion. Those killed were Hernán Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi according to Argentine authorities the NY Times reported.
A sixth member of the reunion group, was among the wounded.
Another victim, Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, a mother of 3-year-old and 3-month-old, from the town of Staden, Belgium was also killed. Three of those injured were also Belgian according to officials.
The two other victims have now been identified as American.
Nicholas Cleves, 23, a software engineer from the West Village. He went to Elisabeth Irwin High School on Charlton St, four blocks away from where he was murdered. A 33-year-old man from New Milford, New Jersey has also been Identified, but his name has not yet been released.
Nicholas Cleves, 23, a software engineer from the West Village. He went to Elisabeth Irwin High School on Charlton St, four blocks away from where he was murdered. A 33-year-old man from New Milford, New Jersey has also been Identified, but his name has not yet been released.
The suspect was identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Uzbekistan who was in critical condition on Tuesday night. He was expected to live law enforcement authorities said.
Saipov was living in Patterson, N.J.
The carnage along the bike path near West Houston St. in the aftermath of Tuesday's rampage in lower Manhattan. (Photo: Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)
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