Police arrest man in hacking death of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy

And within minutes after the Thursday attack, Rahman posted photos of the crime scene, said Col. Ziaul Ahsan of Bangladesh’s elite anti-crime unit, the Rapid Action Battalion.

In a Facebook comment last year, Rahman allegedly wrote, “Avijit Roy lives in America. So it’s not possible to kill him now. But when he returns home, he will be killed then.”

CNN’s Ray Sanchez, Lonzo Cook, Greg Botelho, Farid Ahmed and John Couwels contributed to this report.

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