NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed terrorism charges against the suspect of Tuesday's truck attack in New York City (NYC), which left eight people dead and a dozen others injured.
Acting U.S. Manhattan attorney Joon Kim announced the charges at a news conference in New York.
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect now in custody, had been planning what is called the worst terror attack on NYC since Sept. 11, 2001, "for a number of weeks," John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said at a press conference earlier in the day.
"He did this in the name of ISIS," Miller said, citing some notes recovered at the scene.
On Tuesday afternoon, Saipov, a Uzbek immigrant, plowed a pickup truck down a busy bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing 8 people and injuring 12 others. He was shot by police and then sent to a hospital.
Reports said that he shouted "Allahu Akbar," which means "God is great" in Arabic.
