Live from center city philadelphia. This is fox 29 news at 10 00. Developing less than 48 hours after man shot two officers and in an ambush, both could soon home. The attack left three other people hurt and an innocent bystander dead before officers killed the shooter. Good evening, im lucy nolan im iain page. Fox 29 Sabina Kuriakose is live at the hospital where the u penn officer and philadelphia sergeant were taken friday night. Sabina . Reporter sources tell us that sergeant sylvia young could go home from the hospital at any time. That is remarkable. Considering that she was shot at at close range 18 times, just two nights ago and that u penn officer is already home. Sources tell us he left quietly this morning. It was early sunday morning to little fanfare that university of Pennsylvania Police officer eddy miller left penn presbyterian hospital. After hours they stopped in this bedside photos. Tweeted by the fraternal order of police. Miller was shot during a gun battle with ni
Discovered rahami in that stoop, saying his beard in fact looked fami familiar. Police got here immediately and witnesses heard the gunfire. This entire stretch of elizabeth hour, you can see, remains a very active crime scene. Its dangerous, its scary. Reporter a dramatic and frightening chain of events as Ahmad Khan Rahami went down with a fight. He awoke from a sound sleep to shoot at two Linden Police officers in the heart of linden. Its crazy. Reporter police in new york and new jersey consider the bombings scare in seaside park and chelsea, manhattan, an act of terror. Reportedly his fingerprints were found on a homemade bomb in new york. Out of nowhere i heard gunshots, pop, pop, pop. Reporter elizabeth avenue soon became swarmed with police and fbi, some armed with machine guns. So close to home. Reporter a witness shared this high School Photograph of rahami. He says he knew the man and his family from the chicken restaurant they owned in elizabeth. The home above the business
Reporter what did you see. I just saw Police Vehicles charging coming from all over. Reporter the suspects capture came after a tavern owner called police about a sleeth vagrant in a door way. An officer arrived. He attempted to wake the individual and he he realized immediately this is the individual that was wanted and within seconds that individual began firing and thank god our officer had his vest on u saturday a pipe bomb exploded in seaside park prior to a marine corps char the run. This evening in manhattan a lamper blast injured 29. Later a second Pressure Cooker bomb was discovered and diffused reportedly a cell phone and a fingerprint found on that device were tracked to rahami. We have directly linked rahami to devices from new york and saturday in new jersey. Reporter backpack explosives were found in elizabeth new jersey. As of this afternoon it hasnt been ling to do rahami. His long time home above the familys Fried Chicken store is not far away. Investigators searched t
With. These home grown terrorists. The latest example a north philadelphia woman pleading guilty admitting to her role in joining terrorists in syria. American flags still fly outside the north philadelphia home of an cued terrorist. 32yearold Kianna Thomas pleading guilty in federal court to a iteming to provide Material Support for isis. The woman who wept by the online name of young lineness was arrested just days before traveling to syria back in 2014. Prosecutors say she communicated with known isis fighters even marrying one of them in online wedding ceremony. Among the pages of evidence, one message from 2014. Thomas wrote, i need a permanent vacation that could only mean one thing. Where someone else responded, martyrdom. Terrorism experts say this is the kind of home grown terrorism thats become the most concerning. This has been the one thing that keeps us awake at night. We were concerned about the individual who self radicalizes is not a member of any group, alqaida, an isi
Police chief, just sworn in september 1. About the fact that rahami ended up being captured in this small new jersey town, he told us how they train for scenarios like this, and how real it became for his Police Officers and how t n thannithan thankful he is that in one was killed. The man hunt ended in linding, and saturdays explosion is still causing safety concerns. Reporter just look, my parking wlot is empty. Reporter the manager says a dozen people have called in to cancel after sleepy seaside park became a terrorist plot. American flags have replaced a blown apart trash can, but three days after the bombing, there is still dig belief that it happened here. I dont like this climate and this not knowing whether or not youre safe. We were in seaside park soon after a pipe bomb exploded saturday morning, minutes before a marine corps charity run, luckily it had been delayed and no one was hurt. Its hard to believe, its hard to imagine. Authorities have linked ahmad rahami to the sea