Ryan Nash: New York police officer hailed a hero for stopping 'terror attacker' after eight killed in rampage
Ryan Nash was responding to another call at the time of the attack and shot Sayfullo Saipov when he refused to drop his weapons
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Your support makes all the difference.A quick-thinking New York Police Department officer who shot a terror suspect in Manhattan after a truck was used in a deadly killing spree has been hailed a hero for bringing it to an end.
The city police officer, Ryan Nash, was responding to a report of a suicidal teenager at a high school in lower Manhattan when he heard reports that a vehicle had hit people nearby.
Officer Nash confronted Sayfullo Saipov after a rented truck was driven down a bike lane and into a school bus, killing eight and injuring 11, including children, the New York Daily News reported.
The officer shot the 29-year-old suspect and wounded him when he refused to drop a pair of realistic-looking weapons, later identified as paintball and pellet guns.
Speaking at a press conference afterwards, NYPD commissioner James O’Neill said: “I want to commend the response of our NYPD officer that was on post near the location who stopped the carnage moments after it began.”
The 28-year-old officer was called to Stuyvesant High School to reports of a suicidal 17-year-old girl at 2.35pm.
Around 30 minutes later the truck hit cyclists and pedestrians on Chambers Street, near the school.
Officer Nash rushed to the scene where he saw Saipov brandishing the guns.
Police said Saipov didn’t obey orders to drop the weapons and Nash opened fire, hitting him in the abdomen.
Nash joined the NYPD in July 2012.
Saipov remains in hospital with the attack being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force as one of the worst in the city since the 9/11 attack.
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