Posted on 11/14/2009 8:36:38 PM PST by MamaDearest
A 27 year old man is accused of intentionally trying to run down pedestrians in Rochester on Thursday. Authorities are saying they have not yet established a motive but others are suggesting rage and even sudden jihad syndrome. Tip – M. Edsen
A Rochester man is facing numerous charges, accused of trying to run down people with his car on Thursday afternoon.Police say they were flagged down by people in southwest Rochester, at a parking lot in front of 700 S. Plymouth Avenue.
They say the driver of a Nissan Maxima had struck another car as well as several pedestrians.The officer tried to pull the vehicle over, but the suspect’s car then hit the police cruiser and kept going. Eventually, the Maxima struck a resident’s car at Jefferson Avenue and W. Main and then hit a second police car at Jefferson and Clifton.
The chase eventually ended on South Plymouth near Genesee where the suspect hit another resident’s car.Altogether, seven people, including the suspect were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, but police spokesman LaRon Singletary says it could have been a lot worse…”The officer Jeff Schroeder was in the right place at the right time, you look at the hour it happened two oclock, school is letting out, it’s a miracle no casualties happened given the way this individual was driving.”
The suspect is identified as 27 year old Munir Muthana of Rochester. He faces numerous charges including assault and vehicular assault. there’s no other word right now on a possible motive.
What a shock.
Rochester, NY, Rochester, MN or Rochester, UK?
Fher are more privatly owned guns in PA than thre are in AL. I carry all the time and so do a lot of people I know.
If you think that’s what I mean you’re a frigging idiot.
I’m talking about concealed carry people who are caught up in the middle of something like this who respond by stopping the threat.
You might be happier on DU. Perhaps you already are.
Aren’t cars.... banned already in New York? No, but they ARE licensed, so no problem.
According to our President and Army Chief of Staff, that likely has nothing to do with it.
He was probably just "... a lonely, wifeless guy"
I wasn’t entirely sure what you meant, so I asked a question. Judging by the response, I hope someone with as short a fuse as yourself isn’t carrying; you’d probably have missed the driver and killed bystanders, Quick Draw McGraw.
Stuff it. Your ‘question’ was hardly asked innocently or without smugness in it. Get bent.
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