Man who killed 8 in NYC terrorist attack gets 10 life sentences plus 260 years

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — An Islamic extremist was given 10 life sentences and another 260 years in prison for killing eight people with a truck on a bike path in Manhattan. The judge called his crime among the worst, if not the worst he’d seen. Federal Judge Vernon S. Broderick announced the sentence Wednesday after Sayfullo Saipov spoke. Saipov said the tears of his victims and families of those who died were minimal compared to the tears and blood of followers of Islam killed unjustly. In March, a jury rejected the death penalty for the Uzbekistan citizen and onetime New Jersey resident.