{The teenager} accused of attacking three law enforcement officials with a machete close to Times Square on New 12 months’s Eve pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to homicide and terrorism prices in New York Supreme Court.
Trevor Bickford, 19, shuffled into court in shackles and a brown jumpsuit, flanked by two plainclothes law enforcement officials. He faces a compulsory sentence of life in jail if he’s convicted of the highest cost towards him.
Bickford faces prices in each state and federal court. He appeared in federal court on Monday, the place he faces 4 counts of tried homicide of officers and U.S. authorities workers, every carrying a sentence of 20 years. He’s at present in federal custody.
Prosecutors say Bickford approached three officers on the nook of West 52nd Avenue and Eighth Avenue at about 10 p.m. on New 12 months’s Eve. Two of the officers suffered head wounds, and had been handled at Bellevue Hospital. They’ve since been launched.
Bickford, who was shot in the shoulder in the course of the attack, was additionally handled at Bellevue, the place he made his first look from his hospital mattress.
Police say Bickford was motivated by non secular extremism. They mentioned he traveled from Maine to New York with intent to kill authorities officers.
A spokesperson for the Authorized Assist Society, which is representing Bickford, has requested the general public to “refrain from drawing hasty conclusions” in the case.