Hatchet assault on New York police comes during fears of Islamist attacks

Ben Brumfield

(CNN) -- A bloodied steel hatchet lay on a rainy Queens sidewalk on Thursday like an ominous question mark. Was the bearded man who used it to wound two New York City police officers motivated by radical Islam?

Zale H. Thompson can no longer answer that question. He is dead, stopped by bullets from the guns of two other officers.

His unprovoked attack on four policemen, which injured one critically in the head and sliced the other in the shoulder, was certain suicide.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/new-york-hatchet-islamist-suspicions/