Saturday evening, a guy drove a vehicle into a throng of people attending an event in Berwick, Pennsylvania, state police said. One lady was killed and 17 others were wounded. Authorities believe that the suspect left the scene and then assaulted and murdered his mother with a hammer.
According to state police, 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes was arrested and arraigned on two open charges of criminal murder by Magisterial District Judge Doug Brewer on Sunday.
A criminal complaint acquired by CBS News indicates that at 6:12 p.m. on Saturday, a Honda Accord plowed into a gathering of individuals in the parking lot of the Intoxicology Department pub in Berwick.
The tavern was conducting a day-long benefit for the families of ten individuals, including three children, who were murdered in a home fire in the adjacent town of Nescopeck last week.
There were around 75 individuals in the parking lot when the collision happened. There was one female fatality and seventeen female injuries. The complaint named the deceased lady as Rebecca Reese, who, according to the police, was pulled by the vehicle after being hit. Geisinger Medical Center, a hospital in neighboring Danville, said that at least five of the 17 persons admitted on Sunday were in serious condition.
According to the complaint, after driving into the crowd, Reyes raced away and returned to his house in Nescopeck, where he hit his mother, Rosa Reyes, and a parked vehicle belonging to a neighbor. The lawsuit alleges that he then used a hammer to attack his mother. She passed away at the site. State troopers and local police went to the scene and arrested Reyes.
According to the complaint, Reyes informed officers that he and his mother had argued at their Nescopeck residence. He left the house and drove to Berwick, where he noticed the throng and purposefully collided with them. He said to authorities that he then came home, spotted his mother standing on the street, and struck her with his vehicle. The allegation states that he then admitted getting a hammer from the Honda and assaulting her with it.
State police informed CBS News that Reyes is not a suspect in the inquiry into the recent fatal home fire in Nescopeck.
Saturday night’s Facebook post from the Intoxicology Department said, “Today was an awful tragedy.” “We shall be closed for the foreseeable future. Please respect our privacy as we mourn and attempt to digest the recent occurrences. Thank you.”
Reyes is incarcerated at the Columbia County Correctional Facility and bail has been rejected.
Berwick is located around 115 miles north of Philadelphia.
This story was supplied by Faris Tanyos.