In a note sent out shortly after 2 p.m., jurors deliberating whether Saipov should be put to death for the massacre on a busy West Side bicycle lane on Oct. 31, 2017 said they had concluded they were unable to reach a unanimous decision.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Houle said Sayfullo Saipov was “committed to the long game” in his bloodthirsty quest to kill as many Americans as possible in a deluded ISIS-inspired jihad on Halloween night 2017.
Darren Drake of New Milford, N.J. was on a bicycle, unaware that he was about to land the promotion he worked hard for at Moody’s Analytics, when Sayfullo Saipov ran him down in a 6,000-pound flatbed truck on the greenway’s bike path on Oct. 31, 2017. He was 32.
The native of Uzbekistan wanted to become a member of the Islamic State terror group by attacking Americans on their home soil, prosecutors said Tuesday.