Key Points
- After police initially said the suspect appeared to have acted alone, sources on Sunday told two news outlet the suspect might have ties to islamic extremism.
- Investigators are looking into whether the suspect in the stabbing of two New York City police officers was a radical due to his recent activity online, police sources told the New York Post.
- In addition, a high-level police source told Fox News Digital the suspect was being watched by the FBI’s counterterrorism task force in the weeks ahead of the Saturday’s attack at a checkpoint near Times Square on Saturday night.
- The suspect has now been identified as 19-year-old Trevor Bickford, of Maine.
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