NEW YORK — An accused terrorist chose Halloween to “mow over people” on crowded city streets “like crops” in a 6,000-pound truck as part of his deluded quest to join ISIS, prosecutors told a Manhattan jury Tuesday.
In his closing argument at Sayfullo Saipov’s death penalty trial in Manhattan Federal Court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Richman said the native of Uzbekistan wanted to become a member of the Islamic State terror group by attacking Americans on their home soil.
The sick goal was all that was on Saipov’s mind when he barreled down the busy bike path parallel to Hudson River Park, killing eight people and wounding 11 others on Oct. 31, 2017, the prosecutor alleged.
