Admad Rahimi, who is already serving a life prison term for the bombings in NYC, was found guilty of trying to kill five officers who found him in Linden, New Jersey, in 2016. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.
What to Know
- Appeals court has upheld the conviction on weapons of mass destruction charges of a New Jersey man who set off small bombs in 2 states
- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction Monday of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who is serving a life prison sentence
- Rahimi, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, was sentenced in February 2018 in connection with the Sept. 17, 2016, NYC attacks
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction on weapons of mass destruction charges of a New Jersey man who set off small bombs in two states.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction Monday of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who is serving a life prison sentence.
Rahimi, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, was sentenced in February 2018 in connection with the Sept. 17, 2016, attacks that sent shrapnel across a New York City block.
His sentencing judge has said it was a miracle nobody was killed.
The bombings triggered a two-day manhunt that ended in a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey.
Earlier this month, he was convicted in a New Jersey court of multiple counts of attempted murder in the shootout.
