The Latest: Officer who halted truck rampage 'doing our job'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on the NYPD officer who halted a truck rampage (all times local):
6:10 p.m.
The New York City officer who police say shot the man responsible for a deadly rampage on a bike path says he is grateful for the recognition but was just doing his job.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Officer Ryan Nash appeared outside a police stationhouse on suburban Long Island on Wednesday and read a brief statement.
He said he and the other officers who responded to Tuesday's terror attack "were just doing our job like thousands of officers do every day."
Nash was on a call at a nearby high school when he and his partner were told there'd been an accident.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The pair raced outside and encountered Sayfullo Saipov, waving two firearms that were later revealed to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun.
Nash fired a shot that hit Saipov.
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New York City's police commissioner says the officer who shot the man responsible for a deadly rampage on a Manhattan bike path is too modest to admit he's a hero.
Officer Ryan Nash was on a routine call at a nearby school when he and his partner were told there'd been an accident.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The pair raced outside and encountered Sayfullo Saipov, waving two firearms that were later revealed to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun.
Nash fired a shot that hit Saipov.
Commissioner James O'Neill says he doesn't think there's a "more humble human being" than Nash, who's been on the force for five years.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}O'Neill is among many impressed by what Nash — at the age of 28 — did for New York City and the nation.