The truck struck an unknown number of people near 5th Avenue Bay Ridge Parkway around 11 a.m. and sped off down 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, according to police.
Cops caught up to the U-Haul truck in Brooklyn.The U-Haul was searched by the NYPD’s bomb squad following the arrest.He then jumped on the Gowanus Expressway, where cops caught up to him about 30 minutes later and nearly three miles away at Columbia Street and Hamilton Avenue in Red Hook, the NYPD said.
The driver, a 62-year-old man with no prior arrests, was taken into custody on pending charges, police sources said. The incident initially appeared random, according to the sources who said cops were probing if the man was homeless and living out of the truck. He had one prior run with cops for a mental health call in 2019, the sources added. The pedestrian struck on 4th Avenue, a man in his 30s, was rushed to Lutheran Hospital where he was fighting for his life in critical condition, police said.The NYPD said the incident was not terror-related.
A man driving a U-Haul went on a rampage in Bay Ridge. He was just apprehended in Sunset Park. Several people were hit and badly injured. We have no idea of motives at this time but this wasn't an accident. Thank you to
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