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Ahmad Khan Rahami, suspected in bombings in New York and New Jersey, was captured by police Monday.
The FBI put millions of people on alert Monday when it released a photograph of Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in connection with the weekend bombings in New Jersey and New York. But for some, the face of America’s most wanted man was already eerily familiar.
“I went to high school with the alleged bomber,” tweeted Chris Konya, shortly after the FBI began circulating Rahami’s image on a poster that stated he “should be considered armed and dangerous.”
I went to high school with the alleged bomber. Tune into the Buzz. https://t.co/FGh0sj0GeQ.
— Chris Konya Radio (@ChrisKonya98) September 19, 2016
Konya followed up his first tweet with a second that featured a yearbook photo of Rahami taken during his senior year at Edison High School in New Jersey in 2007.
Here’s a senior year pic of alleged bomber Ahmad Rahami from EHS in NJ. I went to high school with him. @989TheBuzz pic.twitter.com/fjzY8Cgc1o
— Chris Konya Radio (@ChrisKonya98) September 19, 2016
Konya, a radio host in Rochester, N.Y., later told local ABC affiliate WHAM that he remembered Rahami — who was taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday — as quiet and mild-mannered.
“Nothing out of the ordinary,” he said. “We remember him being well-dressed, and when he did talk, it was not abrasive, it was funny.”
Konya recalled that Rahami seemed to disappear after graduation — around the time he is reported to have moved to Afghanistan.
“It’s a complete mystery what happened to Ahmad between graduating in the summer of 2007 and last weekend,” he said. Still, Konya said, he wouldn’t have expected to see his former classmate’s face on an FBI Most Wanted poster.
“It has only been nine or 10 years, so the time span from going from blending into being the most wanted man in America in less than 10 years is pretty shocking to me,” he said.
