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- Two officers were hit in a shootout with the suspect in Linden, New Jersey, Elizabeth mayor says
- Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami's shoulder was bloodied and bandaged when he was taken in a stretcher
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New York (CNN)[Breaking news update at 12:30 p.m.]
--
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in bombings in New York and New
Jersey, is now in custody after a shootout with police, sources said.
The
shootout happened Monday in Linden, New Jersey. Rahami was shot and was
taken to an ambulance in a stretcher with his right shoulder bloodied
and bandaged.
-- Two officers were
hit in the shootout with Rahami, the mayor of the nearby city of
Elizabeth said. One officer's vest was struck, and the other was shot in
the hand.
-- Investigators first
identified Rahami Sunday afternoon, a senior law enforcement official
told CNN Monday. They were able to identify him through a fingerprint,
the official said. The cell phone on the pressure cooker device found at
the 27th street location in Manhattan also provided some clues, the
official added.
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Ahmad
Khan Rahami, the man wanted in connection with bombings in New York and
Seaside Park, New Jersey, is also believed to be connected to pipe
bombs found Sunday night in Elizabeth, New Jersey, sources said.
The bombings led authorities
to believe there may be a terror cell at work in those two states, law
enforcement officials told CNN Monday.
The most destructive incident took place Saturday night in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, where 29 people were injured.
Earlier Saturday, a garbage can exploded near the starting line of a Marine Corps charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
And
on Sunday night, a backpack with multiple bombs inside was found in
Elizabeth, New Jersey. As authorities tried to investigate, one of those
bombs exploded.
The series of attacks come as New York hosts world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
Here are the latest developments:
-- Authorities believe Ahmad Khan Rahami
is the man seen in surveillance videos rolling a duffel bag near the
scene of the bombing in Chelsea, according to multiple officials.
--
Surveillance videos showed the same man near the site of the explosion
in Chelsea and where a pressure-cooker device was found four blocks
away, law enforcement sources told CNN.
-- The
FBI described Rahami as a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent
with a last known address in Elizabeth, New Jersey -- the same city
where an explosives-laden backback was found Sunday night.
--
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the bombs found over the weekend
have similarities, suggesting "there might have been a common linkage."
He said he "wouldn't be surprised if we found a foreign connection to
the act."
-- A federal law
enforcement official said BBs and ball bearings were among the pieces of
metal that appeared to be packed into two pressure cooker bombs in New
York. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it
was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force
of the blast.
The latest bomb discovery
The
backpack in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was found around 9:30 p.m. Sunday in
a wastebasket outside a neighborhood pub -- about 500 feet from a train
trestle, officials said.
It contained up to five
devices, Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said. The two men who found the
backpack thought it might contain something valuable, but they alerted
police when they saw wires and a pipe on the devices, the mayor said.
