Seaside Park Bomber Convicted Of Attempted Murder Of Cops: Report

ELIZABETH, NJ — The man sentenced to life in prison for setting off bombs in Seaside Park and in New York has been found guilty of attempted murder in the shootout with Linden police officers who arrested him, according to reports.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi was found guilty on all charges from his 2016, arrest, WABC 7 reported.

Rahimi, an Afghanistan-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was sentenced in February 2018 to two life terms in connection setting off a pipe bomb during a Marine Corps charity run in Seaside Park and a bomb that injured 30 people in Manhattan in September 2016.

On Tuesday, a federal jury in Elizabeth found him guilty of attempted murder of five Linden police officers, who arrested Rahimi following the shootout. He had been found sleeping on a doorstep in Linden amid a 50-hour manhunt. He shot one police officer and was shot several times by police during the gun battle.

The 30-year-old, who investigators said was inspired by ISIS and al Qaeda, planted pipe bombs in a trash can along the planned route of the Semper Five charity 5K race in Seaside Park on Sept. 17, 2016. Though the bomb exploded, no one was injured due to delays in the start of the race that morning. The bomb had been timed to go off at a point where runners and spectators were expected to be in the vicinity.

Two pressure cooker bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan that detonated later that night also were tied to Rahimi. No one was killed in the explosion. A pedestrian found a second bomb that Rahimi had planted on 27th Street, which did not detonate.

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