Admitted To Killing Seven

South Carolina serial killer Todd Kohlhepp claims he has more victims

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December 9, 2017

A South Carolina man who admitted to killing seven people earlier this year has claimed to have more victims whose remains have not been discovered. In an eight-page letter to the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, Todd Kohlhepp wrote that he tried to tell investigators about the other killings and informed the FBI, but he said “it was blown off.”

<>A claim like this should NEVER be “blown off!” d

Kohlhepp, 46, was arrested last year after police rescued a woman chaik at the neck in a storage container and investigators found a body buried in a shallow grave. The woman told investigators she saw Kohlhepp shoot and kill her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles David Carter who went with her for a cleaning job on the suspect

In addition to Carter, Kohlhepp also pleaded guilty this past May to killing husband-and-wife Johnny and Meagan Coxie in December 2015, as well as four people at local motorcycle shop in 2003. He is currently serving seven consecutive life terms plus 60 years on South Carolina serial killer Todd Kohlhepp claims he has more victims

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Published December 9, 2017

A South Carolina man who admitted to killing seven people earlier this year has claimed to have more victims whose remains have not been discovered.

In an eight-page letter to the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, Todd Kohlhepp wrote that he tried to tell investigators about the other killings and informed the FBI, but he said “it was blown off.”

“At this point, I really don’t see reason to give numbers or locations,” Kohlhepp also wrote.

Kohlhepp, 46, was arrested last year after police rescued a woman chained at the neck in a storage container and investigators found a body buried in a shallow grave. The woman told investigators she saw Kohlhepp shoot and kill her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles David Carter who went with her for a cleaning job on the suspect’s property.

In addition to Carter, Kohlhepp also pleaded guilty this past May to killing husband-and-wife Johnny and Meagan Coxie in December 2015, as well as four people at local motorcycle shop in 2003. He is currently serving seven consecutive life terms plus 60 years on kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges. He is not eligible for parole.

At the time of Kohlhepp’s sentencing, his attorney told the court there were no other victims. But in his letter to the Herald-Journal, Kohlhepp wrote that his murder trail, “leaves the state and leaves the country.”

Kohlhepp moved to South Carolina in 2001 shortly after 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping in Arizona. Authorities there said the then 15-year-old forced a 14-year-old neighbor back to his home at gunpoint, tied her up and raped her.

Police Capt. Mike Walters told the paper he does not believe Kholhepp is tied to any more local cases, but suspects he may have victims out of state.

“I’m sure there are more. I’m just thinking they’re more likely in Florida or elsewhere,” Walters said. “People like him, they want the cops to get the notoriety. They’re always going to throw bait out there often to keep their name out there.”

Three Women Shot

Reuters Staff

(Reuters) – Three women were shot dead in a car as they tried to escape burglars who broke into a home in St. Louis early on Friday, the city’s police department said.

<<tried to escape>>Good except if they had a gun, the burglar would be dead instead of them! df

The women were inside a home on the city’s north side when two men burst in shortly after 3 a.m. local time, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan PoliceDepartment.

<<two men burst in shortly after 3 a.m>>Is this scary enough? df

Authorities got an emergency call that a burglary was underway at the home. Another followed minutes later: shots fired.

When police arrived, they found the three women, all in their 20s, dead inside a car parked outside the home, with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. A man who had been with the women inside the home managed to escape alive.

<<three women, all in their 20s, dead>>This should have worked out FAR better! EVERYONE must have a gun for their self defense in this dangerous world! df

The women were identified by police as Reeba Moore, 25; Dominique Lewis, 24; and Chanice White,

Jeffrey Benkoe and Susan Thomas

Glock

The story of the Glock is simply amazing.

Why Glock Dominates the Handgun Market (And Better than Sig Sauer and Beretta)

In the intervening thirty-five years, the Glock has become the dominant handgun in a crowded field of competitors. Despite stiff competition from countries emulating his polymer design, Glock 17 handguns serve with such diverse forces as the British Armed Forces, the Swedish Armed Forces, Indian special forces, the Iraqi military, the Israeli Defense Forces and the Yemeni military.

The Glock 17 outfits dozens of armies and hundreds of police forces worldwide. U.S. Army Rangers and Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command use the compact version, the Glock 19, and U.S. Special Forces—including the shadowy Delta Force—carry the .40 Smith & Wesson–caliber Glock 22.

For much of the mid-twentieth century, handgun development was in a period of stagnation. The development of the semiautomatic pistol had ushered in a new weapon that, although more complex than a revolver, had a higher ammunition capacity. Quickly adopted by armies around the world, the steel-framed semiautomatic reigned for decades. Then, in the 1980s, something came along that disrupted the firearms industry: the Glock handgun. Today it’s carried by armies worldwide, from the U.S. Army Rangers to the British Armed Forces.

The story of the Glock is simply amazing.

Why Glock Dominates the Handgun Market (And Better than Sig Sauer and Beretta)

In the intervening thirty-five years, the Glock has become the dominant handgun in a crowded field of competitors. Despite stiff competition from countries emulating his polymer design, Glock 17 handguns serve with such diverse forces as the British Armed Forces, the Swedish Armed Forces, Indian special forces, the Iraqi military, the Israeli Defense Forces and the Yemeni military.

The Glock 17 outfits dozens of armies and hundreds of police forces worldwide. U.S. Army Rangers and Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command use the compact version, the Glock 19, and U.S. Special Forces—including the shadowy Delta Force—carry the .40 Smith & Wesson–caliber Glock 22.

For much of the mid-twentieth century, handgun development was in a period of stagnation. The development of the semiautomatic pistol had ushered in a new weapon that, although more complex than a revolver, had a higher ammunition capacity. Quickly adopted by armies around the world, the steel-framed semiautomatic reigned for decades. Then, in the 1980s, something came along that disrupted the firearms industry: the Glock handgun. Today it’s carried by armies worldwide, from the U.S. Army Rangers to the British Armed Forces.

The story of the Glock began in February 1980, when the Austrian army was looking to replace antiquated, World War II–era Walther P-38 handguns with something new. Gaston Glock, an Austrian citizen who ran a small business producing field knives and blades for the Austrian Army, overheard a conversation between two Austrian Army colonels and learned the Army was in the process of searching for a new pistol. According to Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, Glock asked the minister of defense whether or not his shop could compete, and the answer was, “Yes, why not?”

Glock knew nothing about handguns. He had spent two or three days in World War II as a conscript teenager in the Wehrmacht, but that had had no practical benefit for him. The machine shop owner went out and purchased a number of competing pistols, including the Italian Beretta 92F, the Swiss-German Sig Sauer P220, the Czech CZ75 and a modern version of the Walther P-38, the P-1. Glock took the weapons home and studied them, how they worked and how they were constructed. He also consulted firearms specialists, soliciting them for ideas on what they would like to see in a modern handgun.

Glock learned that the Austrian army wanted a pistol with a high ammunition capacity, more than the eight rounds of the Walther P-38. It should weigh no more than twenty-eight ounces, with a streamlined design and a consistent, light trigger pull. It should also have no more than forty parts. After a year of tinkering and product development, Glock filed for a patent for a pistol design on April 30, 1981. He delivered four test pistols the Austrian army on May 19, 1982. The resulting pistol, known as the Glock 17, swept the army’s handgun trials and was accepted for service, earning Glock a contract for twenty thousand of his new pistols.

The Glock 17 was a pistol unlike any other. Strong and light, the lower half of the pistol is a polymer frame housing a steel fire control group. The upper half of the pistol is made from a single block of steel. This use of plastics allowed Glock to keep the handgun’s weight down to twenty-three ounces—a quarter pound less than the army requirement.

Other competitors such as the Beretta 92F and the CZ75 used a steel frame. Glock simplified the design to just thirty-four parts. Longtime gun manufacturer Beretta’s 92F pistol, by comparison, had more than seventy parts.

Glock spent considerable time working on his pistol’s “pointability,” a term that describes a pistol’s natural ability to act as an extension of the shooter’s hand and eye coordination. This makes the pistol easy to aim, translating into a more user-friendly, accurate weapon. The Walther P-38, by comparison “points badly.” Glock also concentrated on making his weapon reliable over all else, and in a competition that allowed for twenty jams in ten thousand shots, his pistol only failed once.

The Glock 17 was also one of the first high-capacity pistols. The Browning Hi Power, designed by John M. Browning himself, was one of the first high-capacity shooters and carried thirteen rounds. The Beretta 92 could carry an impressive fifteen rounds. The Glock 17, however, beat the competition, packing seventeen rounds of nine-millimeter parabellum ammunition, more than doubling the P-38’s magazine capacity.

In the intervening thirty-five years, the Glock has become the dominant handgun in a crowded field of competitors. Despite stiff competition from countries emulating his polymer design, Glock 17 handguns serve with such diverse forces as the British Armed Forces, the Swedish Armed Forces, Indian special forces, the Iraqi military, the Israeli Defense Forces and the Yemeni military.

The Glock 17 outfits dozens of armies and hundreds of police forces worldwide. U.S. Army Rangers and Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command use the compact version, the Glock 19, and U.S. Special Forces—including the shadowy Delta Force—carry the .40 Smith & Wesson–caliber Glock 22.

Gaston Glock credits his success in handgun design to his lack of knowledge about handguns. That gave him no preconceived notions about what a handgun should be, and allowed him to focus on just a handful of requirements: ease of use, simplicity and reliability. Glock didn’t try to invent a pistol that would take over the world, just win a contract for the Austrian army. The rest of the world simply decided it wanted what he was selling. Somewhere in there is a lesson for defense contractors everywhere.

Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in the Diplomat, Foreign Policy, War is Boring and the Daily Beast. In 2009, he cofounded the defense and security blog Japan Security Watch. You can follow him on Twitter: @KyleMizokami.

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Shot Home Intruder

An 84-year-old Pennsylvania man used a handgun that he keeps under his pillow to fatally shoot a home intruder and successfully fight off another early Friday, police said. (Dec. 8)

<<84-year-old Pennsylvania man>>So you see; age is not a factor! df

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — An 84-year-old Pennsylvania man fatally shot a home intruder and successfully fought off intruder

<<fought off intruder>>Here is a crime that could have raped, tortured, and killed a family! df

Don Lutz was jolted awake around 1:15 a.m. by the sound of people coming into his Ellwood City home and emerged from his bedroom armed with a handgun that he said he keeps under his pillow.

In this imaged taken from video and provided by KDKA News in Pittsburgh, Don Lutz speaks in Ellwood City, Pa., on Dec. 8, 2017.

KDKA NEWS VIA AP

One of the intruders grabbed Lutz, police said, so he fired a shot from point-blank range into the man’s chest then started to tussle with both men on the floor of his kitchen.

“I just fired one. It was in the dark. He attacked me and he was up close and I shot him,” Lutz told WPXI . “They jumped me and we both went on the floor.”

As the man Lutz shot rolled off him and died, the other ran out the front door.

<<point-blank range into the man’s chest>>This worked, but he should NOT allow the intruder get that close! He could easily have taken the gun away from him! df

“The other one, maybe the bullet hit him, too. I don’t know. I hope so,” Lutz told WPXI.

An Ellwood City police lieutenant said the department hasn’t yet identified either suspect.

Lutz, who told authorities that he previously served in the military, didn’t suffer any injuries.

“I’m a little sore from scuffling with them,” he told the TV station.

Ellwood City is about 40 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

<<maybe the bullet hit him, too>>Good attitude! df

Gun Buybac

The San Diego Police Department’s no-questions-asked gun buyback was so successful that officers “ran out of money” and had to send people back home with their firearms.

<<buyback was so successful>>Why are some so anxious to give up their weapons, when they are the only things keeping them out of a tyrannical government?

<<gave out $25,000 in gift cards>>Ditto above! df

San Diego police reportedly bought back a total of 164 guns Saturday, up from the 47 that were handed in at a similar event earlier this year. Officers running the event handed out a $150 Walmart gift card per handgun or rifle.

<<handed back a total of 164 gun>>Why are some so stupid? They don’t seem to understand that the 2nd. amendment of our constitution allows people to have guns! They should buy, get trained, and use them for their protection from the government and other threats! df

So-called “assault weapons” or semi-automatic rifles were worth $250 in gift cards. By mid-afternoon, officers had to turn people away. “Explosives, ammunition or inert devices” were not accepted at the event.

Funding for the event was provided by a partnership between Casa Familiar, a community development group, the San Diego Police Department and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.

<<Explosives, ammunition or inert devices” were not accepted>>That makes NO sense at all! Those weapons are much more powerful than any gun and can kill many many more in an instant! df

A complete count of the arsenal will be made Monday, but a total of three assault rifles were handed in, the San Diego Tribune reported. Gun violence is responsible for over 30,000 deaths and causes more than 80,000 injuries each year,” the police department wrote on Facebook. However, not everyone in the community supported the event, and some felt the police weren’t offering a fair price in exchange for the fully functional firearms.

<<Gun violence is responsible for over 30,000 deaths>>This is the argument the left always uses for collecting and destroying guns. In fact whenever there are strong gun control laws, there are MORE shootings! Those places where there are no gun control laws, the crime rate is lower! df“

If anyone is actually planning to go to this to trade in a gun that’s worth more than these gift cards, I will gladly give you more then they are willing to for a reasonable price if you sell it to me. All legally, of course, through an FFL dealer 😁 feel free to contact me,” writers one user trolling the police department. < strong> <<if you sell it to me>>ME is the key word here! It is the criminals who have the guns and other weapons! We must arm our law abiding citizens! They can stop many killers and save lives! df

Homeowner Kills Suspect

Missouri homeowner shoots, kills suspect during home invasion

Travis Fedschun

FoxNews.com

November 26, 2017

A man shot and killed a suspect during an attempted home invasion Saturday in a suburb of St. Louis.

<<killed a suspect>>It warms my heart when a criminal is stopped! df

The St. Charles Police Department told FOX 2 they were called to an apartment complex around 5:45 p.m. after the suspect broke into the home while the man and two children were inside.

<<suspect broke into the home>>Anyone who threatens a person or property should expect to be shot and killed! df

The homeowner then shot and killed the man, who has not yet been identified by police.

<<shot and killed the man>>He got what he deserved! df

Lt. Chad Fisk with the St. Charles Police Department told FOX 2 the children were not injured in the incident.

<<children were not injured>>Isn’t this better – by far – than finding three people dead? df

Lost City

What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I’m Still In Shock.

Off the coast of Egypt divers have discovered something that was thought to be lost a long time ago. It was said that the ancient city of Heracleion was lost under the sea for good. Well 1200 years later, off the bay of Aboukir, this ancient city has finally been discovered. The city dates back to the 6th century B.C. and holds some of the most beautiful artifacts you could imagine.

Things like grand statues of gods and goddesses standing well over 15 feet tall and carved out of red granite, treasures of gold and rare stones, elaborate temples and enormous tablets. This find is enormous in the historical preservation community and has been commissioned by museums around the world. Take a look at this incredible city found underwater.

This is diver Franck Goddio examining the enormous hand carved statue of a pharaoh. This statue stands roughly 16 feet tall and was found near a large temple under the sea.

Here is the head of a statue carved out of red granite depicting the god Hapi. Hapi is known as the god of the flooding of the Nile. Hapi is a symbol of abundance and fertility and has never been discovered at such a large-scale before.

Here the pharaoh, the queen and the god Hapi are laid on the barge next to a temple stele. The stele dates back to the 2nd century B.C.. It was found broken into 17 pieces however all were found and placed back together.

A bronze oil lamp in excellent condition. This dates back to the 2nd century B.C.

The divers carefully lift the enormous stele out of the water where it has been for well over 1200 years.

Here the divers carefully inspect a stone full of gold fragments that date back to the 6th century B.C. I’m amazed that these are still in tact.

This is an absolutely stunning statue found under the bay of a Ptolemiac queen. Most likely Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III dressed as the goddess Isis.

This red granite statue was also found near the big temple of Heracleion and weighs a massive 4 tons.

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Here is a beautiful artifact, a Graeco-Egyptian statue of a queen carved out of dark stone.

This is an absolutely epic underwater find that has researchers scrambling to this part of the globe to learn about this incredibly beautiful Egyptian city. The fact that this city found underwater has been left untouched underwater for so many years is an amazing factor on its own let alone being a find as big as it truly is. These statues and artifacts are massive and nearly perfectly preserved. The attention to detail in these pieces is truly beautiful and I’m happy to see it being preserve.

Many Many Massacres

At the very least 20 individuals are lifeless after a gunman walked into the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, and began firing. Here is an aerial view of the scene.

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Carrie Matula embraces a lady after a deadly taking pictures on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2017.(Photograph: Nick Wagner, AP)

Three mass shootings have rocked the U.S. in the previous 17 months — they usually have been a number of the nation’s bloodiest. 

That grim statistic was reached Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a small and humble place of worship in Texas, leaving not less than 25 individuals lifeless.

The taking pictures on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a rural stretch of land about 35 miles from San Antonio, comes just a bit over a month after the nation’s worst bloodbath when Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 individuals at an outside nation music pageant from a Las Vegas resort.

And fewer than a 12 months and a half in the past, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old safety guard, killed 49 individuals and wounded 58 others at a homosexual nightclub in Orlando that was internet hosting a Latin evening on June 12, 2016. Mateen was killed by police. On the time, the Pulse taking pictures was the deadliest terror assault within the U.S. since 9/11.

Listed below are a variety of different U.S. taking pictures sprees (not a complete record):

• April 16, 2007: Seung Hui Cho, a 23-year-old pupil, went on a taking pictures spree at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., killing 32 individuals, earlier than killing himself.

• Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, gunned down 20 kids and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty earlier than killing himself.

• Oct. 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, crashed his pickup via the wall of Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He shot and killed 23 individuals earlier than committing suicide.

• July 18, 1984: James Huberty, 41, gunned down 21 adults and kids at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, Calif., earlier than being killed by police.

• Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, shot and killed 16 individuals from a college tower on the College of Texas in Austin earlier than being shot by police.

• Aug. 20, 1986: An element-time mail provider, Patrick Henry Sherrill, shot and killed 14 postal staff in Edmund, Okla., earlier than killing himself.

• Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple residing in Redlands, Calif., opened fireplace at a San Bernardino County Division of Public Well being coaching occasion and vacation get together, killing 14 individuals and injuring 22 in a matter of minutes. Farook, an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, labored on the well being division. Malik had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Fb put up earlier than the taking pictures.

• Nov. 5, 2009: U.S. Military Maj. Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 individuals and injured 30 others at Fort Hood close to Killeen, Texas. Hasan, a psychiatrist, appeared to have been radicalized by an Islamic cleric. He was convicted and sentenced to loss of life.

• April 20, 1999: College students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 college students and one instructor at Columbine Excessive Faculty in Colorado in an advanced plot that triggered a nationwide debate over every little thing from gun-control legal guidelines to bullying. The pair, who dedicated suicide, additionally injured 21 individuals, 

• Sept. 16, 2013: Gunman Aaron Alexis, 34, fatally shot 12 individuals and injured three others on the headquarters of the Naval Sea Techniques Command in Washington, D.C. He was later killed by police.

• July 20, 2012: James Holmes gunned down 12 individuals in an Aurora, Colo., movie show. Final 12 months he was convicted of first-degree homicide and tried homicide and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus three,318 years with out parole.

• Oct. 1, 2015: Christopher Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old pupil at Umpqua Group Faculty close to Roseburg, Ore., shot an assistant professor and eight college students in a classroom. After a shootout with police, he dedicated suicide.

• June 18, 2015: A gunman opened fireplace at a weekly Bible research on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. 9 individuals have been killed, together with the pastor Clementa Pinckney; a 10th sufferer survived. The morning after the assault police arrested a suspect, Dylann Roof, 21, who stated he wished to start out a race warfare. In December 2016 Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crimes expenses, and in January he was sentenced to loss of life.

• July 16, 2015: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fireplace on two navy installations in Chattanooga, Tenn. The primary was a drive-by taking pictures at a recruiting middle; the second was at a U.S. Navy Reserve middle. 4 Marines and a Navy sailor died; a Marine recruit officer and a police supply have been wounded. Abdulazeez was killed by police in a gunfight. 

• Nov. 27, 2015: A gunman attacked a Deliberate Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., killing a police officer and two civilians and injuring 9 others. Robert Lewis Expensive was taken into custody after a five-hour standoff and charged with first-degree homicide.   

 <<Now I ask you, “Did our gun control laws prevent these many massacres?>>Of course not! Just the opposite, we need to encourage citizens to buy a gun, get trained, and carry at ALL times! This will stop the killers! df

 

 

 

Lost Dog

Drone reunites missing dog with Marshfield family
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Four agonizing days for a Marshfield family looking for their missing dog ends in relief – with the help of a drone. 

On Saturday, Steve Schrodi and his dog Jax were in the McMillan Marsh in Marshfield. 

“We were ironically working on recalls so having him come back after taking off 20 yards or so,” said Schrodi. “And he took off after something and wouldn’t come back. LAnd so I called him and that’s when it happened, that was Saturday afternoon.”

With the help of friends, the Schrodis searched for more than 30 hours on foot for Jax before asking for more help. 

Soon enough, Branden Bodendorfer, a drone pilot from TriMedia stepped in.
“It was really remarkable,” said Schrodi. “I mean to amount of acreage that you can cover with a drone is just far far surpasses what you can do on foot.”

“We knew that searching over 6,000 acres was going to be a challenge, so we started by sectioning off the marsh into a different quadrants that we thought he might be in,” said Bodendorfer. “And we used the drone to map out those areas from an aerial perspective to identify if he was or wasn’t there.”

After a span of three nights and four days, Jax was reunited with his family. 

“I couldn’t even speak, and yeah it was just amazing,” said Mollie Schrodi, Jax’s owner.

The family said the vet was shocked at how well Jax is doing, despite going days without food or water. 

NYC Killer

Rick Hampson

 USA TODAY
The man accused of plowing a truck through a New York City bike path is a 29-year-old professional truck driver and Uber driver who came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010 and lived most recently with his wife and children in the same northern New Jersey city where several 9/11 attack conspirators stayed.

Law enforcement sources said Sayfullo Saipov, who’s been living in Paterson, drove a rented truck onto the path on Manhattan’s lower West Side around 3 p.m. ET, killing eight people and injuring at least 11 others.

This undated photo provided by St. Charles County Department of Corrections via KMOV shows the Sayfullo Saipov. A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Oct. 31, 2017, killing several. Officials who were not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity identified the attacker Saipov.

St. Charles County Department of Corrections via AP

He shouted, “Allahu Akbar” — “God is great” in Arabic — as he emerged from the truck, police said. He was shot and wounded by a police officer at the scene and taken to a hospital for surgery.

CNN said police found a note from the driver in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

The suspect and his wife came from Tashkent, capital of the central Asian nation. About 80% of Uzbeks are Muslim. It has been a popular recruiting ground for ISIL. 

WNBC-TV reported that the truck used in the attack was rented from a Home Depot in Passaic, N.J., which like Paterson is about a half hour outside Manhattan,  

Police were at the store Tuesday evening; about a dozen parking spaces were cordoned off. In the center was a white Toyota Sienna with Florida license plates.

According to law enforcement officials, Saipov obtained a driver’s license in Tampa, Florida, in 2015. He also drove for Uber, the ride-sharing company said in a statement Tuesday night. Uber said Saipov passed a background check and had driven more than 1,400 trips over the last six months.

The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record reported that Saipov and his wife, Odilova, were married in Summit County, Ohio, on April 12, 2013. He listed his occupation as truck driver; she listed none.

They lived in a two-bedroom apartment at 168 Genesee Ave. in Paterson in recent months with their young children, the apartment building’s manager told The Record.

“I don’t know much about him,” said the manager, who identified himself as Ali and said he works for the building’s owner, Sulfe Catto. “I rented the apartment to him a few months ago, and I see him very infrequently.”

Authorities stand near a damaged Home Depot truck after a motorist drove onto a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people on Oct. 31, 2017, in New York.

Bebeto Matthews, AP

Saipov’s second-floor apartment is a few steps from Omar Mosque. In interviews Tuesday night, neighbors said they recognized Saipov, and said he attended the mosque regularly with his family.

The mosque was one of several in New Jersey that the New York Police Department targeted as part of a broad surveillance program starting in 2005 intended to identify “budding terrorist conspiracies.” The program was criticized for targeting citizens based on religion and ethnicity.

The NYPD’s brief 2006 report about the mosque did not indicate any crime had been committed there, but noted that it “is believed to have been the subject of federal investigations.” 

Mahmoud Attallah, a former spokesman for the mosque, told The Record he was upset by Tuesday’s loss of life. He also worried that the attack could spark an angry backlash against Muslims.

“I was so upset with this situation, these innocent people,’’said Attalah, who lives in Clifton. “Every time we think this is over, and now this, and there is this guy from Uzbekistan, and he’s not even Arabic.” 

In May 2001, four months before the 9/11 attacks, hijackers Hani Hanjour and Nawaf Alhazmi rented a one-room apartment in Paterson. During the summer other hijackers also were seen there by neighbors. 

Court records 

In March 2015 Saipov, listing a Paterson residence, was stopped by police in Pennsylvania, according to court records. He pled guilty to exceeding the maximum length of a trailer, records show.

In November 2012, when he was previously stopped in Pennsylvania, Saipov also listed Paterson as his home. The charge then — failure to comply with license restrictions — was withdrawn, according to court records. 

New information also emerged about Saipov’s Ohio connections. He registered a business in the state in 2011 and briefly lived near Cincinnati in Symmes Township.

A family there that came from Uzbekistan said Saipov had stayed with them for two weeks in 2010 in their apartment at Brisben Place.

 “He was really calm,” Dilnoza Abdusamatova, who was a teenager when Saipov stayed at her parents’ apartment, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. “He always used to work. He wouldn’t go to parties or anything. He only used to come home and rest and leave and go back to work.”

Saipov’s father in Uzbekistan asked Rustam Iskhakov to house Saipov while he tried to get his green card, said Abdusamatova, one of Iskhakov’s children. He didn’t stay for long, Abdusamatova said. He moved out of their home after two weeks and moved to Florida shortly thereafter at the invitation of a friend, she said.

Abdusamatova doesn’t remember what he did for a living while here, but public records show Saipov registered a business at their Symmes Township address in 2011. Saipov called it Sayf Motors Inc.

Brooke Carey, who has lived across the street from the Brisben Place address in a similar townhouse, recognized Saipov’s photo when it was shown to her Tuesday night.

“I recognize the face,” Carey said. “I remember him keeping to himself.”

In Tampa, residents at the Heritage at Tampa Apartments where Saipov appeared to have once lived said they were shocked by the attack and afraid to discuss him. Several interviewed declined to give their names — even though they said didn’t know him.

Contributing: The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record;The Cincinnati Enquirer; USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida; The Associated Press