(presstv) -- The police chief said 29 year old Sayfullo Saipov, who came from Uzbekistan in March 2010, was a legal permanent resident of the US.

"Based on the investigation overnight, it appears that Mr. Saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks. He did this in the name of ISIS and, along with the other items recovered at the scene, was some notes that further indicate that," said Miller.

He added: “He appears to have followed almost exactly to a T the instructions that ISIS had put out in its social media channels before, with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack."