{"id":159187,"date":"2026-03-10T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:40:15","slug":"live-updates-homemade-ieds-set-off-in-controlled-detonation-at-storage-facility-in-nyc-terror-probe-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159187\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Homemade IEDs set off in \u2018controlled detonation\u2019 at storage facility in NYC terror probe, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

49 mins agoSuspects in alleged ISIS-inspired attack in NYC attended high schools in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

The two suspects charged in an alleged ISIS-inspired terror attack<\/a> in New York City both attended high schools in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Emir Balat, 18, has not attended in-person classes at Neshaminy High School since September 2025, having been enrolled in the Neshaminy School District’s Virtual Academy, the district\u2019s superintendent, Jason Bowman, confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, we have no information indicating any security concerns at the high school or at any of our district schools related to this situation\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n

The other suspect, 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, is a resident of Newtown, Penn., and a 2024 graduate of Council Rock North High School in the Council Rock School District, the school district confirmed.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Balat’s attorney, Mehdi Essmidi, said his client is a high school senior with “complicated stuff going on” in his personal life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe he\u2019s 18 and he doesn\u2019t have any idea what he\u2019s doing,\u201d Essmidi said.<\/p>\n

He added that he didn\u2019t believe Balat and Kayumi had known each other long.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Fox News National Correspondent CB Cotton and Fox News\u2019 Tamara Gitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49 mins agoSuspects in alleged ISIS-inspired attack in NYC attended high schools in Pennsylvania The two suspects charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4022,18313,2497,607,9,24,55,54,12,56,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-159187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-current-news","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-national-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}