Federal prosecutors in New York have filed terrorism charges against bike path attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov.

He was charged Wednesday with one count of providing material support and resources to a terrorist organization, and one count of violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday evening that another person is wanted for questioning in the attack.

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The investigation into Tuesday's terrorist attack led investigators to Tampa and into the suspect's background.

Police said Saipov entered a Manhattan bike path in a rental truck and drove at high speeds down the path, striking pedestrians and cyclists.

Eight people were killed and at least 12 were injured.

New York City officials say of the eight people who died, six were foreign visitors. Two were American citizens. 

Of the 12 people who were injured, three were released from the hospital. Some of the victims have more serious injuries, including head and neck trauma, and an amputation.

Four people remain in critical but stable condition.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the victims from other countries will forever be considered New Yorkers.

New York police shot Saipov and took him into cuustody. 

Authorities said they have interviewed Saipov after his surgery but no details have been released.

Sayfullo Saipov's ties to Tampa

Authorities said Saipov, 29, came to the United States legally in 2010 from Uzbekistan. He married in 2013.

He has a Florida driver's license, but more recently lived in New Jersey. Investigators emerged from a Paterson, New Jersey apartment building Wednesday with a black plastic bag. 

Saipov's last address in Florida was a Temple Terrace apartment complex. Saipov lived at the Heritage at Tampa complex on 56th Street. 

An investigation into his past only showed minor traffic offenses. Saipov received multiple traffic citations, including for an incident in Missouri in 2015, when he was charged for failing to maintain his vehicle's brake system. 

Saipov found work as a truck driver and an Uber driver. 

According to Uber, it has reviewed Saipov's history with the company and has not identified any rider complaints about his safety as a driver. He passed the company's background check.

Detectives said Saipov lived in Florida for a short period of time. FBI agents spoke with residents at Saipov's former apartment complex Tuesday evening.

"Knowing you see one person one day and the next day, they tell you do he did something so bad," said Angelica Guzman, who lives at the complex and said she recognized Saipov. "If he did it in New York he could have done it maybe here ... We have so many kids walking around from school, we have two high schools next to us and and the kids walk around here going back and forth to school."  

Records show Saipov was a commercial truck driver who formed a pair of businesses in Ohio. He had also driven for Uber, the ride-hailing company said. An Ohio marriage license shows that a truck driver with one of Saipov’s addresses and his name, spelled slightly differently, married a fellow Uzbek in 2013.

A fellow truck driver in Ohio who knew Saipov said he lost his insurance on his truck after a few traffic tickets, and companies stopped hiring him. That's when he went to New Jersey.

Police said the attacker rented the truck at about 2 p.m. at a New Jersey Home Depot and then went into New York City, entering the bike path about an hour later and speeding toward the World Trade Center, the site of the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history.

Authorities said barreled along the bike path in the truck for the equivalent of about 14 blocks, or around eight-tenths of a mile, before slamming into a small yellow school bus.

Witnesses said he yelled "Allahu Akbar."

Back in Tampa, Angelica Guzman said she was in disbelief. 

"He never talked to nobody," Guzman said. "He just walked outside, smoked a cigarette and go inside, close his door and his blinds and go inside and you don’t see him for the rest of the day until later."

Saipov lived at the complex for at least a year with a wife and two small children, and attended mosque at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay, according to other neighbors.

Another resident at the complex, Mohamed Solomon, now lives in the unit where Saipov lived previously. Solomon told us he didn't recognize Saipov.

"I haven't seen the man," Solomon said. "Honestly, I haven't seen him at all."

Solomon also told us he attends a nearby mosque where many residents living in the complex worship, but Saipov was neither a familiar nor a welcome face.

"This is stupid people," Solomon said. "And you know, it's crazy one, too, because whatever beliefs is crazy beliefs, it's not Muslim at all."

New York goes on

Meanwhile, New Yorkers went about their lives after the attack Tuesday. Around 1 million people came out for the annual Halloween parade.

The New York Marathon will go on this weekend as expected, albeit with additional security measures.

"We will not change, we will not be cowed. We will not be thrown off by anything,'' Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.