An Uzbekistan-born Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipovm, 29, has been identified as the driver of the truck deployed in the Tuesday terror attack in New York City.
He had slammed the truck into pedestrians along a Manhattan bike path, killing eight and injuring at least a dozen others in what authorities described as an act of terror.
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipovm, a resident of Granada Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, was shot by New York City police following the incident.
Saipovm is believed to be the man who drove a Home Depot rental truck onto a bike path at Chambers and West streets, near the World Trade Center.
Six victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Two others died at a hospital, officials said.
“This was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror,” New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. He added that there is no evidence to suggest the attack was part of a larger plot.