Uzbek immigrant with New Jersey ties at centre of New York attack probe

A Home Depot truck is seen as New York city first responders are at the scene near a bike path in lower Manhattan. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

(Reuters) - The man accused of killing eight people by racing a pickup truck down a New York City bike path on Tuesday may have worked as a driver and lived in New Jersey after emigrating from Uzbekistan seven years ago, according to authorities and media reports.

Few other details about the 29-year-old suspect have emerged since the Tuesday afternoon vehicle rampage in lower Manhattan, blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the landmark World Trade Center Twin Towers.