NY bomb suspect pleads not guilty from hospital bed

October 14, 2016 02:26

The New York bomb suspect wanted for injuring 31 people in a September attack in Manhattan pleaded not guilty today to state charges from his hospital bed.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi's public defender entered a plea of not guilty on state charges that his client attempted to murder police officers and unlawfully possessed weapons while on the run in New Jersey.

Bail was set at USD 5.2 million.

Rahimi was shown lying in his hospital bed, where he is being treated after being critically wounded in a shootout with police on September 19 that led to his capture.

"Yes ma'am," said the Afghan-born American weakly in response to questions from Judge Regina Caulfield, who spoke from the court, as he recovered in his home town of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Looking pale, with a thick black beard and black hair, he had a hospital sheet pulled up almost to his neck.

His public lawyer, Peter Liguori, stood over him wearing a hospital gown over his shirt and tie, and blue rubber gloves on his hands.

Liguori told the court he wished to correct the spelling of his 28-year-old client's last name to Rahimi -- not Rahami as previously listed by US authorities.

The bomb attack in New York's upscale neighborhood of Chelsea wounded 31 people on September 17.

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