Terror trial set to begin for suspect in 2017 truck attack that killed eight people on New York City's West Side Highway.
Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck a day after it was used in a terror attack in New York, Nov. 1, 2017.The first federal death penalty trial of the Biden administration opens Monday in New York City, where Sayfullo Saipov is charged with the
He was allegedly inspired to commit the killings by ISIS videos he viewed, prosecutors said. The rental truck used in the Oct. 31, 2017, attack was decorated with an ISIS flag. He chose Halloween to commit the attack, anticipating there would be more civilians on the streets that day, prosecutors alleged.
"Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov caused injury, harm, and loss to the families and friends of Diego Enrique Angelini, Nicholas Cleves, Ann-Laure Decadt, Darren Drake, Ariel Erlij, Hernan Ferruchi, Hernan Diego Mendoza, and Alejandro Damian Pagnucco," according to court records. Five of the victims were tourists from Argentina.
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