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NY/NJ bombing suspect Ahmad Rahami in custody, was shot and taken to hospital: NBC

During a shootout, two officers were injured, and NY/NJ bombing suspect Rahami was shot, NBC News reported.

New York/New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami was taken into custody Monday after a shootout with police during which two officers were injured and Rahami was shot, authorities said.

The shootout happened in Linden, New Jersey, hours after authorities announced the 28-year-old Afghan immigrant was suspected in the weekend bombings that injured 29 people.

A witness spotted a man sleeping in a doorway of a local business and called the police, a law enforcement official told NBC News. The official also said the suspect opened fire on officers when they approached.

One officer was shot but had non life-threatening injuries, NBC News reported. Another officer was hit by glass shrapnel. Two sources told NBC that Rahami also was shot and was taken to a hospital.

 
Police have shot and taken Ahmad Khan Rahami into custody in Linden, NJ on Sept. 19, 2016.
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Police have shot and taken Ahmad Khan Rahami into custody in Linden, NJ on Sept. 19, 2016.

On Saturday, a bomb exploded in the New Jersey shore town on Seaside Park, forcing the cancellation of a large charity race. Later that day, a bombing in New York's Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people. Officers found a possible secondary device nearby. On Sunday, five additional explosive devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Rahami was identified as a suspect on Monday morning after authorities found a fingerprint on a device that did not detonate, according to investigators.

Two senior officials have now confirmed to NBC News that Ahmad Khan Rahami was not on a U.S. terrorist watchlist or an NYPD list. There is more than one watch list that federal and state governments use to track both foreigners of interest as well as citizens of interest.

One of the sources, a former senior intelligence official with the NYPD, said that the NYPD intelligence bureau does have its own list of individuals called the "persons of interest" list.

"This list is compiled, changed and updated based on ongoing active cases," he said.

 
Law enforcement officers secure the area where they allegedly arrested terror suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami following a shootout in Linden, New Jersey, on September 19, 2016.
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Law enforcement officers secure the area where they allegedly arrested terror suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami following a shootout in Linden, New Jersey, on September 19, 2016.

The source told NBC: "The amount of surveillance dedicated for each individual is determined by the level of threat assessed by the top brass & conferral with the FBI. It is common for members of NYPD, Intelligence Bureau to assist the FBI in large scale surveillance operations where they need a lot of manpower...."

However, "the NYPD did not have this guy on the radar" prior to Saturday night.

Our second source, with U.S. intelligence confirmed all of the information above and says that the information and names on the NYPD list is shared with counterparts with the State of New Jersey.

 NBC News' Robert Dembo, Micah Grimes, Ayman Mohyeldin, Julmary Zambrano and Shirley Zilberstein contributed to this report.

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