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New Jersey Jury Begins Deliberations in Attempted Murder Case Against Convicted Chelsea Bomber

What to Know

  • Jurors have started deliberating in the attempted murder trial of a man already convicted of planting bombs in New York City
  • The eight woman and four men heard closing arguments Thursday in the trial of Ahmad Khan Rahimi
  • Rahimi is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted him last year of setting off a pressure cooker device, injuring 30 in Chelsea

Jurors have started deliberating in the attempted murder trial of a man already convicted of planting bombs in New York City.

The eight woman and four men heard closing arguments Thursday in the trial of Ahmad Khan Rahimi. The Afghanistan-born naturalized U.S. citizen faces charges stemming from a shootout with police officers before his 2016 arrest, which occurred after a two-day manhunt.

Rahimi's attorney argued his client acted in self-defense.

Rahimi is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted him last year of setting off a pressure cooker device, injuring 30 people. A second bomb a few blocks away failed to go off.

The government contends Rahimi set a small pipe bomb along a Marine Corps road race in Seaside Park, New Jersey hours before the explosion in Chelsea on Sept. 17, 2016.

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