NEW YORK — Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek native who drove a rented truck down a Manhattan bike path adjacent to the Hudson River in an ISIS-inspired terror attack that killed eight people, was convicted Thursday by a federal court jury of murder and attempted murder in order to gain entry to ISIS, making him eligible for the death penalty.
The trial, which began in Manhattan federal court earlier this month, marked the first federal death penalty trial of the Biden administration. Jurors will next decide whether Saipov should face the death penalty.
The truck attack, which was on Halloween, was the deadliest terror attack in New York since Sept. 11, 2001. Prosecutors alleged that the suspect drove the truck on a bike lane and pedestrian walkway in lower Manhattan, and when the truck collided with a school bus he exited the vehicle holding a paintball gun and pellet gun.
He chose Halloween to commit the attack, which required"substantial planning and premeditation," anticipating there would be more civilians on the streets that day, prosecutors alleged, calling it"heinous, cruel and depraved."
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