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Two cops were attacked by Bickford. They are out of the hospital and are resting at home.
By Michael V. Cusenza
The Maine man who has been charged with attacking two City cops on New Year’s Eve just outside Times Square with a machete-like weapon camped out in the Richmond Hill section of Forest Park hours before heading into Manhattan and slashing the officers, published reports said.
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Alleged cop slasher Trevor Bickford camped out inside Forest Park on Saturday.
Trevor Bickford, 19, described by the New York Daily News as “a recently radicalized jihadist” is known by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was charged on Monday with attempted murder. As of Wednesday, Bickford remained in a City hospital after he was wounded in a shoulder by a third cop’s bullet Saturday night.
According to the News, Bickford spent Friday night at a hotel in the Bowery. The next day he camped out in Forest Park. Authorities found a sleeping bag and some food where Bickford had bedded down.
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The weapon used in the attack.
“In a diary found in his backpack after the attack, he apologized to his family, particularly his mother, for not doing well enough in life,” the News wrote on Tuesday.
