This September 2016 photo provided by Union County Prosecutor’s Office shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder of police officers in the shootout that led to his capture Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. He is the suspect in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey.
New Yorkers pass a shattered storefront window on W. 23rd St. in Manhattan, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in New York. The window was hit by shrapnel from the terrorist bomb that exploded across the street Saturday evening. An Afghan immigrant wanted in the bombings was captured Monday after being wounded in a gun battle with police. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NEW YORK – Bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami was charged Tuesday with planting a series of explosives in New York and New Jersey, including one that injured more than two dozen people when it blew up on a busy Manhattan street.
A federal criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday as more details emerged about the Afghan-born U.S. citizen’s past, including the disclosure that the FBI had looked into him in 2014 but came up with nothing.
Before the federal charges were filed, Rahmani, 28, was already being held on $5.2 million bail, charged with the attempted murder of police officers during the shootout that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rahami had a lawyer who could comment on the charges. He remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the leg, forearm and shoulder.
Federal agents have attempted to question Rahami in the hospital. But Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., who received a classified briefing from the FBI, said Rahami was not cooperating.