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American 'Jihadist' Trevor Bickford, admits to trying to kill three NYPD cops in a machete attack during 2022 Times Square celebration

2024-01-12

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Sudden Jihad Syndrome attack by known wolf — his aunt had notified the FBI in Boston that he’d told her he wanted to go fight in Afghanistan.

Trevor Bickford, now 20, was 19 when he traveled to New York from his home in Maine with the intent to commit murder on three uniformed NYPD officers

The teen was there to carry out a jihadist attack but his plan got thwarted once he was shot by one of the officers

Bickford pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder of government officials and three counts of assault on government officials on Thursday, faces 120 years in prison

Bickford was also charged separately by the Manhattan DA's office in state court with attempted murder and terrorism-related crimes over the attack. The case is ongoing, a report said.

The former honor roll student, who played football, marched with the color guard and won awards for his artwork, knifed two cops with an 18-inch kukri knife near West 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue on December 31, 2022.

But, his plan was thwarted when one of the officer's shot the teen in his shoulder wounding him.

Then-NYPD Chief Thomas Galati said the machete was bought several years before the attack. Galati noted if Bickford's weapon had been new it could have possibly killed the officer he struck.

'He knew what he was doing. He knew why he was doing it,' he said. 'He probably thought he would probably die as a result of carrying out this attack.'

He added that Bickford yelled out, 'Allah Akbar' during the attack.

It is believed Bickford became a radicalized Muslim after his father died of an overdose in 2018.

Photos posted to Facebook show Bickford at different times of his life, many with his two brothers Devin and Travis.

Bickford did not have criminal record before the attack, according to a preliminary investigation, but police sources say the Bureau in Boston has an open case on him.

Authorities have told NBC they were looking into whether the suspect had previously posted what they called jihadist writings online and then traveled to New York City to target police.

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