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An Investigation Of A New Jersey Fried Chicken Restaurant

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He presided behind the counter of a storefront New Jersey fried chicken restaurant, making his home with his family in an apartment above it. To some of his friends, Ahmad Khan Rahami was known as Mad, an abridgment of his name rather than a suggestion of his manner, and they liked the fact that he gave them free food when they were short on money.

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Other than that, his other known obsession was souped-up Honda Civics that he liked to race. In recent years, though, some friends noticed a marked change in his personality and religious devotion after what they believe was a visit to Afghanistan, where he was born.

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And for years, he and his relatives had a fractious relationship with neighbors and the police because of the always-open hours the restaurant kept and the rackety customers it attracted.

Now, Rahami is suspected of being responsible for the weekend bombings in both New York and New Jersey. He was taken into custody on Monday after being discovered asleep in a doorway in New Jersey and then wounded in a gunbattle with the police. Law enforcement officials said he appeared on surveillance video near the bomb that exploded in the Chelsea section of Manhattan and a device a few blocks away that did not detonate.

A 28-year-old naturalized citizen, Rahami lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, about 15 miles from New York, above

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