Several people were injured in New York when they were run over, apparently intentionally, by a truck whose driver was arrested shortly after.
“We don’t know the reasons at this time, but it was not an accident“, Councilman Justin Brannan, who represents the area of southern Brooklyn where the incident took place, said on Twitter. In addition, he assures that there are six people hospitalizedof which two are in “very poor condition”.
According to police sources quoted by local media, there are at least four injured and one of them was transferred in critical condition to a nearby hospital.
The accident took place around 11:00 a.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT) on an avenue in the neighborhood of Bay Ridgein Brooklyn, where the truck invaded the sidewalk and struck several people.
The driver fled the scene aboard the vehicle and was pursued by police units, who finally managed to arrest him approximately 30 minutes later after a chase.
According to local media, the arrested man has 62 years and he does not have a criminal record, although he had had an episode with the Police in 2019 due to apparent mental health problems, says the New York Post.
The newspaper The New York Times points out that police officers tried to stop the truck around 10:50 am and that the driver tried to avoid them and it was just after that he ran over people.
For now, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has not offered official information about the event. Mayor Eric Adams’ office said on Twitter that the NYPD was still investigating and that “there are no additional credible threats at this time” once the suspect has been taken into custody.
The truck, a small vehicle from the rental company U-Haul, was being examined by agents, including The New York Times.
The outrage took place just on the day that the final phase of the trial against Sayfullo Saipovthe one convicted of the terrorist attack that in 2017 cost the lives of eight people, including five Argentines, in New York.
Saipov, who used a rental truck to run over cyclists who were traveling on a bike lane, has already been found guilty and now the jury must decide whether he should receive life imprisonment or the death penalty.
For now, the event has not pointed to a possible terrorist motivation.
Source: Lasexta
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