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Monday 2 November 2015
3 dead, 4 injured in
NYC Halloween crash
MICHAEL BALSAMO may have suffered a medi- old man plowed into the First responders examine an automobile after its driver lost
Associated Press cal emergency, such as a pedestrians on a sidewalk control and plowed into a group of trick-or-treaters in New
NEW YORK (AP) — Inves- seizure. and then smashed through York, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.
tigators of a horrific Hal- A 65-year-old grandfather, a fence in front of a home,
loween crash that killed Louis Perez, suffered severe police said. The driver was Associated Press
three people including a head trauma and died at taken to the hospital in sta-
10-year-old girl are look- the scene, police said. His ble condition. No charges Witnesses described hear- a real person,” neighbor
ing at whether a medical granddaughter, 10-year- had been announced as ing a loud boom, followed Fabio Cotza told the New
problem may have caused old Nyanna Aquil, was pro- of Sunday afternoon, po- by screaming and crying, York Post. “I just grabbed a
a motorist to smash into a nounced dead at a hos- lice said. then seeing a trail of man- whole bunch of towels and
group of costumed revel- pital. The girl’s 3-year-old Nyanna’s mother, Natalia gled bodies in crumpled, ran outside.”
ers in New York City, police sister was also hospitalized. Perez, told the Daily News bloodied costumes. Hours after the crash,
said Sunday. Another man, 24-year- that her father had been “I saw a torso on the side- neighbors gathered for a
The car jumped a curb in old Kristian Leka, was also taking her daughters for walk. I didn’t know if it was small candlelight vigil to re-
the Bronx on Saturday eve- killed. His 9-year-old sister some extra Halloween fun. a Halloween dummy or member the victims.q
ning, leaving behind man- and a 21-year-old female “It was all because my dad
gled bodies and bloodied friend were also injured but wanted to take my girls for
costumes as neighbors ran not critically. a second round of trick-or-
to help. Police were exam- A black Dodge Charger treating,” she said. “Isn’t
ining whether the driver being driven by a 52-year- that crazy? I had already
taken the girls earlier.”
Witnesses describe gunman’s
rampage in Colorado Springs
SADIE GURMAN at the wrong time.”
Associated Press A neighbor, Naomi Bettis,
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col- who lives across the street,
orado (AP) — Witnesses on said she saw a man in a
Sunday described a terrify- green jacket with a rifle,
ing scene on the streets of walking down the street.
Colorado Springs, where She saw him go into a
a gunman armed with a house across the street,
rifle shot and killed three and come out with a hand-
people before being fatal- gun. She said the man
ly shot in a gunbattle with headed down the block,
police. and the bicyclist came up.
Authorities have released Bettis said the bicyclist
few details about Satur- begged for his life, but the
day morning’s shooting in gunman kept shooting.
broad daylight. The sus- Bettis said the bicyclist col-
pect and victims have not lapsed outside a house.
been identified, and police She later placed a bou-
are looking for a motive. quet of flowers, a candle
A neighbor, Teresa Will- and a note where the bi-
ingham, said she and her cyclist was slain, saying
7-year-old son heard three “My thoughts are with you.
loud gunshots and saw a Praying for the family. I’m
bicyclist lying face down in sorry for your loss.”
the street, his legs mangled Matt Abshire, 21, told the
and still intertwined in his Colorado Springs Gazette
bike. he looked outside his apart-
“His last words were ‘Please ment window and saw a
God, no,’” she said. “He man shoot someone with a
was just at the wrong place rifle. q
