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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 25 June 2019

Driver with record charged

with 7 homicides in biker crash

By MICHAEL CASEY parking lot after failing a towing a flatbed trailer,
Associated Press sobriety test. Officers had collided with a group of
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — responded to a complaint 10 motorcycles Friday on
The driver of a truck in a fi- about a man who was rev- a two-lane highway in the
ery collision on a rural New ving his truck engine and northern New Hampshire
Hampshire highway that jumping up and down out- community of Randolph,
killed seven motorcyclists side the vehicle. investigators said. The truck
was charged Monday with Additionally, Zhukovskyy was traveling west when
seven counts of negligent was arrested on a drunken it struck the eastbound
homicide, and records driving charge in 2013 in group of motorcycles.
show he was stopped on Westfield, Massachusetts, The victims were mem-
suspicion of drunken driv- state motor vehicle records bers or supporters of the
ing last month and in 2013. show. He was placed on Marine JarHeads, a New
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, probation for one year and England motorcycle club
23, was arrested Monday had his license suspended that includes Marines and
morning at his home in West for 210 days, The Westfield their spouses, and ranged
Springfield, Massachusetts, News reported. in age from 42 to 62. Four
the New Hampshire attor- A man who answered the were from New Hampshire,
ney general’s office said. phone at the home of Zhu- two from Massachusetts
Zhukovskyy was questioned kovskyy’s family and would and one from Rhode Island.
at the scene of Friday’s identify himself only as his George Loring, a JarHeads Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, of West Springfield, stands during his
crash and allowed to re- brother-in-law said Mon- member who lives in Hing- arraignment in Springfield District Court, Monday, June 24, 2019,
turn to Massachusetts, the day that the family is in ham, Massachusetts, and in Springfield, Mass.
National Transportation shock and feeling the same was a few hundred yards Associated Press
Safety Board has said. pain as everyone else but from the crash, said Zhu- called it a poor consolation they are investigating the
Zhukovskyy was handed couldn’t say whether the kovskyy has “got to live for the loss of a loved one. cause of the collision.
over to New Hampshire au- driver was right or wrong. with it for the rest of his life.” “As long as he pays a price. JarHeads president Manny
thorities after a brief court Since the accident, the “Everyone’s suffering so He has caused lot of harm Ribeiro, who survived the
appearance Monday in brother-in-law said, Zhu- much,” Loring said. “It’s so to a lot of families,” Maz- crash, said the group had
Springfield, Massachusetts. kovskyy had remained in sad for the brothers and sis- za said from his Haverhill just finished dinner and
The 23-year-old looked his room, not eaten and ters who died. You can be home. “If has a problem, were heading to a fundrais-
down at his feet as he was talked to no one. angry at him, you can be he shouldn’t be on the er at American Legion post
led into the courtroom with Defense attorney Donald whatever. I don’t know. I’m road. If he is a bad actor, in nearby Gorham. A total
his hands cuffed behind his Frank called Friday’s crash glad he’s been arrested.” he doesn’t belong on the of 21 riders and 15 motor-
back. a “tragedy” but said it’s im- Joseph Mazza, whose street. He caused enough cycles were in the group.
Connecticut prosecutors portant to let the criminal nephew Albert Mazza Jr. of a tragedy. Enough is Ten motorcycles, including
say he was arrested May 11 justice system play out. was killed in the crash, enough.” Mazza who was riding next
in an East Windsor Walmart Zhukovskyy’s pickup truck, welcomed the arrest but Authorities have only said to Ribeiro, were hit.q
Suspect in Nebraska woman’s

death slashes neck during trial

WILBER, Neb. (AP) — A man Monday before swiping ordered the jury to return
accused in the 2017 slay- something across his neck Tuesday morning. Authori-
ing of a Nebraska woman in the courtroom in Wilber, ties say he’s had a stroke
slashed his neck and fell 35 miles (56 kilometers) and two heart attacks
from a wheelchair during southwest of Lincoln. Depu- since his arrest.
his murder trial. ties rushed to help as Trail Saline County District
Fifty-two-year-old Aubrey lay bleeding on the floor. Judge Vicky Johnson said In this June 19, 2018 file photo, Aubrey Trail, left, looks on during
Trail yelled “Bailey is inno- It is unclear how badly Trail Trail will be handcuffed for a hearing in Saline County Court, in Wilbur, Neb.
cent, and I curse you all” is injured, but the judge the remainder of the trial.q Associated Press