Posted on 01/02/2024 4:43:43 AM PST by lowbridge
A couple was killed and numerous others injured just hours into the New Year when a car filled with explosives barreled into a crowd of people leaving a rock concert in upstate New York, police said.
The fiery crash occurred at 12:50 a.m. outside the Kodak Center in Rochester, where roughly 1,000 people were filing out after a New Year’s Eve moe. show.
Rochester officers were helping pedestrians cross the street when a Ford Expedition sped toward the mob, but smashed instead into an Uber that was pulling out of a nearby parking lot, law enforcement sources said.
“The force of the collision caused the two vehicles to go through a group of pedestrians that were in the crosswalk and then into two other vehicles,” police Chief David Smith said at a press conference.
The cars exploded into an intense blaze that took the fire department nearly one hour to extinguish.
A couple riding inside the Uber were killed, while their driver was rushed to the hospital in non-life threatening condition, sources and police said.
Three pedestrians were struck by the flying cars — one of whom was left clinging to life.
The driver who tried to mow down the crowd was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
He died of his injuries around 8 p.m. Monday and was identified as Michael Avery, law enforcement sources told The Post.
After the fire was extinguished, investigators found at least a dozen gasoline canisters scattered across the pavement and inside the Expedition, according to Smith.
The incident is being investigated as possible domestic terrorism.
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I was kidding....
My inner Seinfeld came out....
But thanks for playing! ;)
“Gasoline isn’t an explosive.”
Achmed Mohammed Jihad al Bagdaddy doesnt know that I detect.
I’ve not read anything about that. Only noted the local beauty shop review of worker under what appeared to be possible sex change person.
I could be totally wrong, but if I am not, it would make sense. They have a high suicide rate.
Could be just that.
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