NYC Bombing Suspect's Family 'Outraged' By Their Treatment

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The family of accused terrorist Akayed Ullah — who was charged Tuesday for detonating a homemade explosive device inside a Midtown Manhattan subway tunnel, injuring four people — criticized the NYPD for its investigation following Monday's attack in New York City.

Law enforcement officials kept a 4-year-old child out in the cold and interrogated a teenager without a parent, guardian or lawyer present after Monday's attack, the family said in a statement read by Albert Fox Cahn, legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in New York.

"These are not the sorts of actions we expect from out justice system," Cahn read from the statement.

Ullah's family also said in the statement that is was "heartbroken" by the violence targeted against New York City on Monday and the allegations against the member of their family.

Police say Ullah, of Flatlands, Brooklyn, injured himself and three others with a crude explosive strapped to his chest in a pedestrian tunnel near the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Ullah was the only person who suffered serious injuries, according to FDNY officials.

The accused bomber is facing charges of supporting an act of terrorism, criminal possession of a weapon and making terroristic threats, the NYPD announced Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York announced Tuesday in a criminal complaint that Ullah may face charges including providing material support to a terrorist organization, use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.

Ullah, detonated an "improvised, low-tech explosive device," similar to a pipe bomb, at 7:20 a.m. as he walked in a pedestrian tunnel underneath 42nd Street, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said. Ullah was heading from the Eighth Avenue subway platforms toward the Times Square station at Seventh Avenue, O'Neill said.

Authorities searched apartments associated with Ullah in Flatlands and Kensington in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources said. Local and federal law enforcement were seen investigating at a building on Ocean Parkway near Newkirk Avenue in Kensington, according to multiple reporters.

Read Patch's complete coverage of Monday's terror attack here.

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