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Jack Mazza, 55, a mechanic who works at a shop around the corner, said he and a friend named Harinder Bains, were walking past Bains bar, called Merdie's Tavern. They spotted a male laying in a fetal position with his face nearly covered by a gray hoodie, initially thinking he was a bum sleeping in a sort of vestibule out front.
When Harry told him to leave, the bearded Rahami said, go f--- yourself. Im sleeping.
"Harry said, 'That's the guy. That's the guy that planted the bomb,' Mazza said. I said 'No, it's not you can't even see his face. How do you know?' Because he had a hoodie on. I bent down and looked at him and said, I don't know. Call the cops if you think it's him."
"A few minutes later the cops showed up and the guy pulled out a gun and started shooting through the glass at them. Then he ran out and took off down Elizabeth Avenue."
Mazza said the police chased Rahami, who fired back at them as he was running.
I guess he was trying to shoot the cops, but he was hitting passing cars, he said. It's a miracle nobody got hurt. He could have hit us. He could have hit anyone.
Juan Villaface, 32, said the bar owner told Rahami he had to move along.
He was sleeping, Villaface said. We walked by. We said to the owner, the guy's sleeping. He called the cops. He said, the cops are on their way. When the cop came, they knocked on the glass. (Rahami) shot at (the officer) right away. I heard two shots.
Chris Ricco, 42, also was with Mazza and Villaface when they came across Rahami. "It was definitely the guy who was in the news, Ricco said. Harry tried to wake him up. He told him to f--k off. So he called the police.
Cops ordered Rahami to show his hands and he opened fire at the officer and took off on foot before he was captured.
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