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From the Bay area Mercury News [excerpted]: Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over weddingBy James Hohmann and Katherine CorcoranRelatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who is waiting for a visa.Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, who sources said was being held by the San Francisco police, was normally a kind and gentle person, said Hamid Nekrawesh, 43, a first cousin in Fremont.But a recent trip to Afghanistan to participate in an arranged marriage could have caused him a lot of...

One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in the San Francisco area on Tuesday after a driver targeted pedestrians on crosswalks and sidewalks, police allege. Pedro Adluguv, 70, is carried to an ambulance after he was hit by a car while crossing a street in San Francisco, Tuesday. (Penni Gladstone/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press) Seven people were in critical condition in the series of hit-and-run incidents, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The spree began around noon in the Fremont district, where a 55-year-old man walking on the side of the road was struck. He was thrown into a...

One man has died and at least 14 people were injured when a Fremont man purposefully drove his sport-utility vehicle onto sidewalks and crosswalks in San Francisco and Fremont today, according to San Francisco police. The victims appear to include a Fremont man, a 78-year-old man who was using a cane to cross the street when he was struck, and a woman in her 70s. Earlier reports that a child was injured was incorrect.

(08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said. Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ohmeed Aziz Popal, who has an address in Ceres. Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died. Popal was arrested at...