ABC’s New York affiliate captured images of the Rahami as he was taken away from the scene in an ambulance. He appeared to have been shot in the right arm.
“We want to get this guy in for questioning,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on CNN earlier Monday. “I think we’re going to know a lot more in the course of the day. Things are moving very quickly.”
According to the New York Times, Rahami’s father runs a fried chicken restaurant in Elizabeth where he and his brothers also worked. Patrons described Rahami as “friendly.”
Rahami also has “a passion for Honda Civics custom-built to race,” the Times reported.
On Sunday night, FBI agents in Brooklyn stopped “a vehicle of interest” in the investigation of the Manhattan explosion, according to FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser.
According to the Associated Press, five people in the car were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
Sources said Rahami was taken into custody in Linden, New Jersey, about 4 miles south of Elizabeth, after being injured in an altercation with police. Shots were fired and at least one officer was shot, police sources said.
Rahami was taken to the hospital. The extent of his injuries was not immediately clear.NEW: Linden, NJ mayor says Ahmad Rahami found sleeping in hallway by bar owner; police called in, recognized him. https://t.co/iNsM2t4AqQ— ABC News (@ABC) September 19, 2016
The confrontation happened at about 10:30 a.m., when an owner of a Linden bar reported that someone was sleeping in a hallway of his establishment, Linden Mayor Derek Armstead told ABC New York station WABC.
"One of our police officers went to investigate and to wake him up, and realized that he was [Rahami], the suspect that had been being sought in the bombings," the mayor told WABC. "He realized it was the suspect and, within moments, the suspect fired on him. And thank God that he had his vest on. And I think that was very helpful for him. I think that saved his life."
Sources say that federal prosecutors have drafted charges against Rahami.
An alert sent shortly before 8 a.m. today says police were seeking a man in connection with the Saturday night bombing in New York City, identified by authorities as 28-year-old Rahami. He is believed to be the man seen in surveillance video at both the scene of the explosion on Manhattan’s West 23th Street and the scene on West 27th Street where the unexploded device was found, a police source said.Ahmad Khan Rahami, the "person of interest" in New York-area bombings, reportedly in custody https://t.co/ZE8os9TipS pic.twitter.com/9l8u08Tt4k— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) September 19, 2016
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