A New Jersey man already sentenced to life in prison for planting bombs that injured 30 people in 2016 was given another life term for shooting at police officers during his arrest, prosecutors say.
The charges for which Rahami was sentenced Friday related to his arrest in Linden days after the bombings.
Rahami shot at other officers as he fled, firing 20 rounds at police, the prosecutor’s office said. A second officer was hit in the head by a bullet fired by Rahami that went through the officer’s windshield. in October 2017 on eight federal counts stemming from two New York City bombs, and he was sentenced in the following February to life in prison.In addition to the two bombs in New York City, a pipe bomb exploded along the route of a planned Marines 5K charity run in the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park. The race had been delayed, and no one was hurt.
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