An “armed and dangerous” Afghan-born suspect wanted in the weekend bomb attacks in New York and New Jersey was wounded Monday in a shootout with police and taken into custody. Two police officers were also shot and hurt in the exchange, said the mayor of the suspect's neighboring hometown Elizabeth, adjacent to Newark International Airport.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was shown stretchered into an ambulance, sporting a bloodied bandage on his right arm and moving his head with his eyes open in the New Jersey town of Linden, according to ABC News footage.
His arrest came around four hours after the FBI released a mugshot of the brown-haired and bearded Rahami, calling him “armed and dangerous,” in text message alerts sent to millions of people in the New York area.
The police want to question Rahami in connection with Saturday night’s bombing in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood that injured 29 people and Saturday morning’s Seaside Park pipe bombing, which forced the cancellation of a US Marine race.
Little is known about Rahami, other than that his family ran a chicken restaurant.
