NEW YORK — An attacker with a machete assaulted three NYPD officers just outside the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration, fracturing a rookie cop’s skull before police shot him in the shoulder, police said.
Cops and federal investigators are now looking into whether the 19-year-old suspect, identified by sources as Trevor Bickford of Maine, is a radicalized terrorist, law enforcement sources said.
At around 10:11 p.m. at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and W. 52nd Street the attacker tried to swing a machete into a police officer’s head, said Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
