A automobile hit a gathering of pedestrians in New York City, killing a 67-year-old woman and injuring four others, including her 8-year-old grandson.
At the site, the grandmother’s death was confirmed.
Three additional victims had significant injuries, two are in critical condition, and one just had minor wounds.
Following the collision, one individual is in police custody, while the other two escaped and are currently being sought by authorities.
According to the New York Post, police were pursuing the car before the collision after trying to stop the driver for having mismatched license plates. According to one eyewitness, the vehicle struck a bus stop before striking the people.
When our police officers got out of their car and approached that vehicle on foot, Assistant Chief Judith Harrison informed the reporters, “That vehicle left at an extraordinarily high rate of speed.”
At 163 Macon Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just after 7 o’clock, according to the FDNY, a car struck a gathering. In order to learn more about the event, DailyMail.com has contacted the FDNY.
An 8-year-old kid is one of the casualties. The youngster, according to Harrison, is “fighting for his life right now, and he truly needs your prayers.”
Mayor of New York City Eric Adams attributed the event on the state’s bail reform during a late-night press conference. We are asking innocent people to die in this city, the mayor remarked, in part.
Police, firefighters, and ambulances swooped into the area and blocked off the road’s entrance.
At the Maimonides Medical Center, the victims are receiving care. Everyone is anticipated to live.
The BLM deli was just in front of the collision. A store employee claimed to have been working inside when the collision happened, according to DailyMail.com.
He said that after the collision, he, a male boy of about 10 years old, collapsed on the sidewalk. The worker reported seeing a lot of blood but was unable to identify its source.
The worker said that the incident would have been captured on video by the surveillance system outside the deli, and that recordings of the incident had been taken by authorities.
‘I was walking and I noticed a lady on the floor not moving or responding,’ witness Lasinda Matthews told the New York Daily News. Her face was hidden from my view. On the sidewalk, she was laying lifeless.
‘I glanced up and saw a lady soar on the air,’ Noah Meares, another witness, told the newspaper. I raced inside after realizing she had been struck and shouted for someone to dial 911.
A registered nurse happened to be at the scene when the crash occurred and attended to the victims.
Dushaun Crawfrod, who owns a barber shop in the neighborhood, told the Daily News: ‘This is a very fast paced area traffic. It’s an avenue, it’s wide and people speed.’
Mayor Eric Adams said: ‘We are feeding it over and over again. A small number of bad people think they can do bad things and get out of jail because we have a bad criminal justice system. When are we going to connect the dots?’
He added: ‘The video I observed is chilling for anyone who lives in this community… I live blocks from here. I patronize these stores. These are my neighbors. No one deserves to walk across the street with their grandchild and be struck.’
The mayor concluded by saying: ‘We will catch the people responsible. Without even knowing who they are, I guarantee you the have a long criminal record.’
It has been a bloody 48 hours on New York City’s streets already with two people having been killed and two other hospitalized in separate incidents.
In one of those incidents, a man was charged with assault and DWI after allegedly hitting his wife with his car following an argument.
On Friday evening, an 11-year-old boy was critically injured when he was hit by an ice cream truck while he was riding his bicycle.
