Suspects in ISIS-inspired explosives attack outside Mamdani's NYC home indicted
Two men accused of trying to detonate makeshift bombs during protests near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence last month detailed in a notebook and through audio recordings how they hoped their ISIS-inspired attack would kill dozens of people, according to an indictment released Tuesday. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, who were arrested on March 7 outside Gracie Mansion, were charged with eight crimes, including providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for the attack, federal prosecutors said. “All I know is I want to start terror bro” and “I want to petrify these people,” Kayumi told Balat on the morning of the attack, according to dashcam video captured while the two traveled from Pennsylvania to Manhattan, the indictment says. While detailing their plans during the exchange, Balat predicted they were “gonna kill about 8 to 16 people,” or as many as 30 to 60 people if the area of the attack was crowded, according to the document. Police said the explosives were capable of causing “serious injury or death,” though no devices exploded and no one was injured in the attack, which unfolded at an anti-Islam demonstration and a counterprotest during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. READ MORE: 13wham.com _______________ Stay up to date with our social media: 13 WHAM on Facebook: / 13wham 13 WHAM on Twitter: / 13wham 13WHAM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/13whamtv/?h... 13WHAM on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@13wham?lang=en 13 WHAM Daily Local News Digest: • 13WHAM Local News Digest For more information, visit https://13wham.com/ Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: (585) 334-8700 WHAM is a NY based station and a ABC Television affiliate owned and operated by Deerfield Media, Inc and receives certain services from an affiliation of Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country today. #13WHAM #News #Rochester #NewYork
