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The fizzle blast went off around 7:20 a.m. Monday during rush hour.
Three other people suffered minor injuries, mainly headaches from the blast and ringing in the ears. They self-transported to local hospitals and all are expected to fully recover.
The suspect has been identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. He is from Bangladesh and has been living in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn for about 7 years. He worked in an electronics store and had been a livery cab driver. Ullah came to the US on a chain migration, which is something President Trump is attempting to stop. Between 2005 and 2015, over 70 percent of immigrants migrated to the US in this way.
He wore an improvised explosive device (IED), NYPD Police Commissioner James O'Neill said. The device went off prematurely causing non life-threatening burns to Ullah's hands and torso, along with other lacerations.
The device was affixed to the terrorist's body with velcro and zip-ties. Perhaps he was out of Crazy Glue.
A second device was found on Ullah, police said.
Fortunately, Ullah is not a skilled bomb craftsman and this may have been the first device he has ever made.
A federal law enforcement official said the device malfunctioned and didn't fully detonate. Had it done so, there likely would have been many serious injuries.
Authorities are investigating to see if this was a "lone wolf" attack, based on the rudimentary construction of the device, but is there really such a thing as 'lone wolf' when these attacks are inspired by the same entity that inspires all Islamic attacks?
The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at a news conference and said nothing of significance and provided nothing we already don't know about the resiliency of America and particularly New Yorkers.
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