On October 31, 2017, Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, was visiting New York City from Belgium with her mother and two sisters and riding a rental bicycle on the Hudson River bike path in lower Manhattan when a pickup truck drove onto the path and began striking cyclists and pedestrians. Decadt was hit from behind as her family rode nearby. The truck came to a stop after crashing into a small school bus; the driver, Sayfullo Saipov, was shot by police at the scene and taken to a hospital.

Authorities said the attack was carried out in the name of ISIS. Prosecutors described months of planning, practice runs with a truck, and materials brought to the scene bearing ISIS symbolism and slogans; while in custody at the hospital Saipov reportedly spoke with FBI agents about doing the attack in response to ISIS calls. The case was tried in federal court, where a jury convicted Saipov on all counts on January 26, 2023; after the penalty phase the jury’s inability to agree on execution resulted in mandatory life imprisonment, and a judge later imposed multiple life terms and additional years on May 17, 2023.

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