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U.S. NEWS Thursday 4 May 2017

Massachusetts:
SUV suddenly takes off, crashes during auto auction; 3 dead

RODRIQUE NGOWI tires,” he told the station.
Associated Press “In avoiding the cars, who-
BILLERICA, Mass. (AP) — ever was driving this vehicle
A SUV being shown to hit several people.”
prospective buyers at a The vehicle then went
crowded indoor auto auc- through the wall of the
tion suddenly accelerated building, Tuttle said.
with a screech of its tires The driver “avoided the
and crashed through a cars, and went on to hit the
wall Wednesday morning, people who were standing
killing three people and in- between the cars,” Tuttle
juring nine. told WCVB-TV.
An auction employee in his Car dealer Fredrick Kyazze
70s was behind the wheel said he and a colleague
of the 2006 Jeep Grand had just moved out of the
Cherokee when it appar- path of the SUV minutes
ently lurched out of control before it tore through the
and mowed people down building.
at LynnWay Auto Auction “We heard a bang from
in Billerica, about 20 miles where we just came from,”
(32 kilometers) northwest Kyazze said. “I thought
of Boston. probably the building col-
One man and two women lapsed or something like This still image from video provided by NBC Boston shows wreckage after a vehicle suddenly ac-
were killed in the crash, that. Then we ran back to celerated at an auto auction and struck several people before it crashed through a wall of the
Middlesex District Attor- see what was going on and building, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Billerica, Mass.
ney Marian Ryan said at ... we just saw people lying (NBC Boston via AP)
a news conference. Nine on the floor.”
people were hurt, includ- Emergency personnel were routinely stationed at the Chief Daniel Rosa said. Am- showed a vehicle covered
ing two with life-threaten- quick to respond to the auction site because of the bulances from several sur- in debris. Medics wheeled
ing injuries, she said. The scene because four police large crowds it draws every rounding towns responded. people out of the building
driver wasn’t hospitalized, officers and a firefighter are Wednesday, Billerica Police Images from TV helicopters on gurneys.q
she said.
“The preliminary investiga- Police say 2 Chicago officers shot in targeted attack
tion suggests this is a tragic
accident,” Ryan said. CHICAGO (AP) — A man Anthony Guglielmi are searching for suspects The police investigation
Massachusetts State Police manhunt was underway said. and questioning three includes “expediting pro-
investigators are working to Wednesday after two The officers were conduct- people of interest, he said. cessing of ballistic evi-
reconstruct the accident, plain-clothes Chicago po- ing a follow-up investiga- Police believe the officers dence and gun traces,”
which happened while lice officers were shot and tion to a previous inci- were shot with a high-pow- Guglielmi said.
several hundred people wounded as they sat in an dent, but Guglielmi said ered weapon and have Chris Villanueva, 36, said
were in the building. unmarked vehicle in what they were wearing civilian recovered two guns and he was walking back to
Woody Tuttle, an auto auc- authorities are describing clothes with vests bearing a vehicle that could be his car in a strip mall park-
tion employee who saw as a targeted attack. police badges. Johnson linked to the shooting. ing lot south of the shoot-
the crash, told WCVB-TV Two vehicles pulled up said their vehicle was un- “Listen, if they will fire at po- ing scene, when he heard
that the building has eight alongside the officers and marked. lice officers like that, then about a dozen rapid-fire
lanes in which vehicles on opened fire Tuesday eve- “We believe that the of- they have no thought pro- shots.
the auction block line up. ning in the high-crime Back ficers were definitely tar- cess in terms of firing at oth- “I thought it was fireworks
People were standing be- of the Yards neighborhood geted,” Guglielmi told The er citizens of this great city,” maybe, but around here
tween the lanes when one on the city’s South Side. Associated Press. Police Superintendent Ed- you hear gunshots a lot,”
vehicle suddenly took off, One officer was shot in the Both were released from die Johnson said. he told the Chicago Sun-
Tuttle said. arm and hip and the other the hospital Wednesday, “So we are going to get Times. “Next thing, cops are
“I heard a screeching of in the back, police spokes- Guglielmi said. Authorities them.” everywhere.”q