LINDEN, NJ – Law enforcement sources say Ahmad Khan Rahami, a suspect in Saturday night's bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, was captured following a shootout and is alive but wounded. He was conscious as he was being loaded into an ambulance, his hands clearly cuffed behind him. He was taken to University Hospital, where he was undergoing surgery after being shot at least two times.
He was found after the owner of a local bar discovered him sleeping in a hallway. Believing him to be a vagrant, he contacted police.
"At approximately 10:30 this morning, the owner of one of the establishments in town reported that there was an individual sleeping in his hallway," Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said. "One of our police officers went to investigate, to wake him up, and realized that he was the suspect that has been sought in the other bombings that had occurred prior...He realized it was the suspect, and within moments, the suspect had fired on him. And thank God that he had his vest on. I think that saved his life."
Two police officers in total were hurt, with the other officer apparently being grazed in the head while sitting in his police cruiser. Neither sustained life-threatening injuries, police said, as the officer in the car suffered a glancing blow and was cut by shattered glass.
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