New york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. With remarkable speed, a 48hour reign of terror in the nations largest metropolitan area was brought to an end today in a dramatic takedown. The man Police Suspect was behind bombing attacks and attempted bombings in new york city and nearby new jersey over the weekend was shot and wounded during a gun battle. This video captures 28yearold ahmad cannes ra hany on the run in linden, new jersey, before he was shot today. An ied injured nearly 30 people when it exploded saturday evening in manhattans chelsea neighborhood. The key question authorities are working to answer right now is, did he have help . We have it all covered tonight, starting with nbcs miguel almaguer. Reporter the manhunt turned into a foot chase and ended in a shootout. Ahm ahmad khan ra hany shot multiple times. Wheeled into an ambulance after investigators say he opened fire to two officers. I mainly seen a cop just shooting at the suspect. Just sounded like, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Reporter the 28yearold was found sleeping in the doorway of a linden, new jersey bar. The responding officer recognized rahami. The suspect pulled out a handgun, fired one shot at the officer, striking him. Reporter two officers were wounded, along with rahami. A naturalized u. S. Citizen who was born in afghanistan. Now that we have this suspect in custody, the investigation can focus on other aspects. Such as whether this individual acted alone and what his motivations may have been. Reporter police asked for the publics help in finding him. Sending this first of its kind emergency alert, warning people to be on the lookout after pulling over five members of his family, along the ver zano bridge last night and taking them in for questioning. The suspects father spoke exclusively to nbc news tonight. Did you know that your son was doing this . No. You had no idea . No. Im not sure what happened exactly. Reporter rahami lived with his father just a few miles from the shootout. Here in elizabeth, new jersey, above his familys restaurant. Today the fbi scoured his home, inspecting the roof and towing away a car. Sources say he was captured on video walking away from this blast in manhattan that injured 29 saturday. Then later, this device, a rigged Pressure Cooker that never detonated found just four blocks away. Better safe than sorry. So i went upstairs and called 911 and they responded immediately. Reporter earlier that day, in seaside, new jersey, investigators believe rahami planted an. Ed along the route of a charity race, the bomb exploding before the event got under way. Okay, we need to shut down this run. Reporter then this morning, a third explosion, less than a mile from rahamis home. Two homeless men alerted police after stumbling upon a backpack in a trash can filled with five explosive devices. This blast accidentally triggered by the bomb squad. It was near a busy rail line and pub, all evacuated. An act of terror, say police, but for now, this is their only suspect. A wanted man, now in custody. With police still scouring the crime scene here, they say its incredible how quickly this case has begun to wrap up, in about 48 hours. They credit the public for leading them to not only the suspect, but to the explosive devices that could have killed so many people. Lester . Lets talk more about the suspect, ahmad rahami. Authorities revealing new details about his past, including multiple trips to afghanistan and evidence he may have been radicalized. This has they continue to search for a motive. We have more from nbcs richard engel. Reporter born in afghanistan, Ahmad Khan Rahami lived in elizabeth city, outside of new york. He graduated from edison high school. Classmates say he didnt make much of an impression there. Went on to Middlesex County college, studied criminal justice, but dropped out. The rahamis own a Fried Chicken restaurant. When you say he looked mad, he just had an angry expression, or he was quick to get into fights or arguments . No, he just kind of had that face that he always looked mad. Reporter the restaurant was not popular with some neighbors who complained it was too loud, open too late. The police were often called in. The family filed a federal lawsuit five years ago, alleging they were being harassed. Muslims make too much trouble in this country, they claimed a neighbor said. They claimed in that lawsuit they were being persecuted because they were muslims. This lawsuit had nothing to do with ethnicity or anything to do with religious beliefs. Reporter but was it a dispute over the Family Business that enraged ahmad or Something Else . U. S. Intelligence officials tell nbc news, ahmad, his father and brother, traveled to pakistan and afghanistan multiple times over the last decade. A senior u. S. Intelligence official said ahmad and other members of his family had become, quote, radicalize said and that social media accounts under pseudonyms praised the american born extremist cleric, Anwar Alawlaki killed by drone strikes in yemen in 2011. But before today, ahmad was mostly unknown. And not on a watch list. Authorities are now investigating what other members of the family may have known and did they radicalize each other . Lester . Thank you, richard. This investigation moved remarkably fast due to some lucky breaks, help from the public, and some very fast detective work. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams is tracking the terror trail. Reporter the first break comes saturday morning in seaside park, new jersey, where a 5k charity race is late starting. A device consisting of five pipe bombs fizzles. Its rushed to the crime lab near washington. The second break comes that night after a bomb goes off in new york city. Police find an unexploded Pressure Cooker bomb on the street. It too is sent to the fbi lab. Investigators say analysts find a fingerprint on it. A search of databases gets a hit to ahmad rahami. Next break, Officials Say both the unexploded devices are wired to cellular flip phones acting as timers and the phones yield more clues pointing to rahami, and both phones were bought in the same new jersey Discount Store last year. Meantime, investigators in new york find Surveillance Video showing a man who appears to be rahami at both spots where bombs were planted in new york. All of that leading the fbi to make this announcement. We have directly linked rahami to devices from new york and from saturday in new jersey. Reporter for now, rahami is held on local gun charges stemming from this mornings shootout, while federal prosecutors build their case. Were going to take a lot of care and time to make sure if we bring charges federally in the Manhattan District Court that we do it in a way with thats careful and thorough. Tonight rahami is being held on state charges of attempted murder of Police Officers. His bond has been set at 5 million. Lester . All right, pete wimds, thank you. Now to another major terror investigation under way tonight in st. Cloud, minnesota. Isis has claimed responsibility for a stabbing rampage that left nine people injured inside a shopping mall. Our blake mccoy is there with new details. Reporter tonight phrase for jason falconer, an offduty Police Officer being hailed a hero for shooting and killing a knifewielding attacker inside a minnesota mall. I believe there was divine intervention. I think he was the person that needed to be there, to prevent it from being worse than it was. Reporter the ten people injured in saturdays attack have all been released from the hospital as focus intensifies on the lone attacker identified by family and friend as 22yearold dahir adan, a somali american immigrant, College Student and part time private security officer. Said to have referenced ala has he began stabbing people. He stood about ten feet in front of me, brandishing his knife. I begged him, please dont kill me. 0 isaiah was stabbed in the back and said his pregnant girlfriend barely got away. I ran after him, screaming dont touch her, shes pregnant. From me screaming, he looked at me, and slightly misseder had. Reporter today police are pushing back against a claim in isil media that he was acting as a soldier for the islamic state. Do you have any evidence at this point that the suspect was tied to isil . As i talk to you today, sir, i have not we have not uncovered anything to make a nexus to the claim that isis made. Reporter tonight the mall is back open, a motive still unclear. Blake mccoy, nbc news, st. Cloud, minnesota. As you might imagine, the ibs dents in new york, new jersey, and minnesota are reverb berating through the president ial campaign. And donald trump and Hillary Clinton taking aim at each other in what amounts to a seft of how theyd approach a crisis on their watch. Andrea mitchell has more on the bitter political battle. Reporter tonight the contrast could not be more dramatic. Today, we have caught this evil thug who planted the bombs. Reporter donald trump blaming this weekends attacks on obama and clinton immigration policy and saying police should start profiles. Hillary clinton talks tougher about my supporters than she does about islamic terrorists. Reporter while Hillary Clinton going after trump claiming his rhetoric about muslims is helping isis recruit terrorists. Were going after the bad guys and were going to get them. But were not going after an entire religion. Reporter trump leads her on handling terrorism. Just before i got off the plane, a bomb went off. Reporter today bragging, he called the new york explosion a bomb even before police did. What i said was exactly correct. Reporter and clinton losing ground with young voters, today using trump to try to make her case. We need everyone off the sidelines. Not voting is not an option. That just plays into trumps hands. Tonight both candidates in new york, meeting with foreign leaders, trying to look president ial, one week ahead of the first debate. Lester . Andrea, thank you. Turning to heartbreak in syria where an aid convoy has been bombed after a weeklong ceasefire came to an end before desperately needed supplies could arrive for thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire. Tonight our bill neely is inside aleppo. Reporter at sunset, syria declared the ceasefire over. And warplanes hit aleppo. Rebel areas, pounded. The dead and injured filling hospitals tonight. But this was a ceasefire in name only. Front line enemies exchanging fire, in a city torn apart by a war thats not ending. This commander tells me the rebels broke the ceasefire. Rebels blame the regime. In the middle, families. Fleeing the fighting and the lack of food in rebel areas. The aid they were all promised in the u. S. Russia ceasefire deal never came. This is the frontline road the aid convoy should have taken to get into the besieged area of east aleppo. But that hasnt happened, and many rebels say, it never will. So they are left under siege with so little. We have no food, no water, he says. Nothing. The road to peace here now seems an empty one. Tonight in aleppo, dozens of explosions and air strikes. The u. N. Says an aid convoy has been bombed. The syrian red crescent confirming its vehicles were hit. Casualties, and who did that, unknown. Lester . Thank you, bill neely in syria. Still ahead, homemade bombs and the huge threat they pose right here in america. 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Reporter from street cops in new york to tsa teams in train stations and airports, Law Enforcement on the lookout for the types of homemade bombs used in new york and new jersey. Explosives experts say the Pressure Cooker bomb found on the street in new york, and the pipe bombs in new jersey, appear taken right out of al qaedas online instruction manual. This is specifically and exactly what al qaeda has instructed people to do. Reporter and very similar to the bombs that detonated at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three and injuring 264. The surviving boston bomber admitted he and his brother learned how to build the bombs by reading al qaedas instructions. Just last spring, the fbi demonstrated how easily homemade ingredients can be turned into an explosive. Asking hardware and gun shops to report anyone buying large quantities. They may be innocuous purchased one at a time. But when you see folks taking an arm full of them in their cart, they may be up to no good. 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