Two folks had been killed and 7 others had been injured after an apparently impaired driver of a pickup truck plowed right into a crowd of individuals celebrating July 4 in a park on the Decrease East Aspect, the authorities stated.
A number of of the injured had been transported to hospitals, 4 of them in important situation, the authorities stated at a information convention on Thursday night time. A police spokesman confirmed by cellphone that one particular person had been taken into custody.
Talking on the information convention, Mayor Eric Adams of New York stated that although investigations had been preliminary, the incident didn’t look like “terrorist associated.”
Police stated that simply earlier than 9 p.m., a Ford F-150 driving eastbound at excessive velocity down Water Road sped by a cease signal, up onto the sidewalk and into Corlears Hook Park, the place a crowd of individuals had been celebrating the vacation.
“We do consider that alcohol had performed a task on this, however we’re investigating,” Chief Jeffrey B. Maddrey of the New York Metropolis Police Division stated on the information convention. He stated that two of these injured had been confirmed useless upon arrival on the hospital.
