NYPD officer who halted truck rampage hailed as modest hero
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A damaged Home Depot truck remained on the scene, today, after the driver mowed down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York.
NEW YORK >> New York City’s police commissioner says the officer who shot the man responsible for a deadly rampage on a Manhattan bike path is too modest to admit he’s a hero.
Officer Ryan Nash was on a routine call at a nearby school when he and his partner were told there had been an accident.
The pair raced outside and encountered Sayfullo Saipov, waving two weapons that were later revealed to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun.
Nash fired a shot that hit Saipov.
Commissioner James O’Neill says he doesn’t think there’s a “more humble human being” than Nash, who’s been on the force for five years.
O’Neill is among many impressed by what Nash — at the age of 28 — did for New York City and the nation.
