Posted on 10/31/2017 1:31:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
At least six people were killed and 15 were injured when a truck driver deliberately mowed down people in lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, officials tell News 4 New York.
Sources initially said they were responding to a report of at least five people shot near West and Chambers streets in Tribeca, but officials say their investigation now shows the injuries may have come from the truck crash. Police sources tell News 4 that a box truck driver was traveling the wrong way down a bicycle path, injuring several people. The box truck then collided with a Home Deport rental truck, and the box truck driver got out with what now appears to be a fake firearm. He was then shot by police. He's in custody.
A box truck driver zoomed the wrong way down a bicycle path, mowing down several people, sources say. The driver then got out with what appeared to be firearms.
Witnesses told News 4 they saw the driver running around with the apparent guns.
He was then shot by police, according to sources. He's in custody, police say.
Students from the top-ranked Stuyvesant High School and other witnesses in the area tweeted that they'd heard gunshots. A message has been left with the Department of Education.
A large number of police vehicles could be seen near West Street and Chambers Street in Tribeca, which is near a community college, Stuyvesant High School, and a few blocks north of the National Sept. 11 Memorial.
According to audio recorded by the service Broadcastify, the NYPD cleared the area around the truck to bring in bomb squads shortly after the violent episode.
“Box truck on Chambers and West, we need that area cleared,” said one officer. “We need everybody away from that truck.”
Both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo were headed to the scene.
Students were dismissed from class after a shooting - some students said the shooting was outside the school pic.twitter.com/eIKlDSLQVB — Madison Mills (@MadisonMills22) October 31, 2017
Apparently an active shooter in Battery Park City according to kid I tutor. Stay safe everybody. — Larry Sulner (@bearjew318) October 31, 2017
active shooter near my house. stay away from lower west manhattan. — tyler (@swooshfacekilla) October 31, 2017
The students from Stuyvesant started running like “omg that was a real gun!” — walter bishop (@neurax_) October 31, 2017
Three to four gunshots just went off by my job. Think they came from Stuyvesant high school... — Mike (@el_dorado91) October 31, 2017
Published 55 minutes ago | Updated 1 minute ago
even worse. the UAW makes cars for BIG MONEY knowing that they could be rented and used to kill people. unconscionable
Both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo were headed to the scene and will immediately call for more gun control/laws.
There are reports on Twitter of the shooter yelling Allah Akbar, and there is a picture of a gunman with what looked like a sawed off shotgun. It is twitter so who knows.
True, but if he was going in the ‘right’ direction, it could be a health related incident, black-out, etc..............
Particularly when police told "everyone" (I guess the mayor and governor of NY are not real people) to stay way from that area. Yes, a place of "tradegy" they might well have created due to their liberal leanings.
For a photo op and an opportunity to slam Trump.
Probably correct.................
Didn’t we all predict that the enemy would have to pull out something else to distract attention?
Gee I thought they were going to wait till November 4th.
Are you sure that the driver was not an Orthodox Jew or an Irish Carmelite nun, or an American veteran? /s
That’s odd.
I say it in the bathroom...................
“You can’t have guns in NYC. It’s against the law.”
I think they still allow the police to have guns in NYC ...
Well, I feel safe. I live in a SANCTUARY STATE!!!! Thank Goodness that we have a fine governor, Moonbeam Brown.
Double bonus round - is he in the country illegally?
Is Fox really reporting this? (I’m stuck at work.)
I bet this guy thought Halloween was some kind of major religious holiday..................
In larger cities there are often designated left or right hand bike lanes just like regular auto lanes. This guy obviously wanted to cause maximum mayhem by running against the traffic direction.
Our son works in that part of town, and finishes work about 2:30 or so. So Mrs. JimRed was frantic until he replied to her text to him.
It was an AK-15 with a bump silencer firing automatic bullets.
Yep, a Glock AK-15!..................
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