Posted on 10/31/2017 1:31:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
At least six people were killed and 15 were injured when a truck driver deliberately mowed down people in lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, officials tell News 4 New York.
Sources initially said they were responding to a report of at least five people shot near West and Chambers streets in Tribeca, but officials say their investigation now shows the injuries may have come from the truck crash. Police sources tell News 4 that a box truck driver was traveling the wrong way down a bicycle path, injuring several people. The box truck then collided with a Home Deport rental truck, and the box truck driver got out with what now appears to be a fake firearm. He was then shot by police. He's in custody.
A box truck driver zoomed the wrong way down a bicycle path, mowing down several people, sources say. The driver then got out with what appeared to be firearms.
Witnesses told News 4 they saw the driver running around with the apparent guns.
He was then shot by police, according to sources. He's in custody, police say.
Students from the top-ranked Stuyvesant High School and other witnesses in the area tweeted that they'd heard gunshots. A message has been left with the Department of Education.
A large number of police vehicles could be seen near West Street and Chambers Street in Tribeca, which is near a community college, Stuyvesant High School, and a few blocks north of the National Sept. 11 Memorial.
According to audio recorded by the service Broadcastify, the NYPD cleared the area around the truck to bring in bomb squads shortly after the violent episode.
“Box truck on Chambers and West, we need that area cleared,” said one officer. “We need everybody away from that truck.”
Both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo were headed to the scene.
Students were dismissed from class after a shooting - some students said the shooting was outside the school pic.twitter.com/eIKlDSLQVB — Madison Mills (@MadisonMills22) October 31, 2017
Apparently an active shooter in Battery Park City according to kid I tutor. Stay safe everybody. — Larry Sulner (@bearjew318) October 31, 2017
active shooter near my house. stay away from lower west manhattan. — tyler (@swooshfacekilla) October 31, 2017
The students from Stuyvesant started running like “omg that was a real gun!” — walter bishop (@neurax_) October 31, 2017
Three to four gunshots just went off by my job. Think they came from Stuyvesant high school... — Mike (@el_dorado91) October 31, 2017
Published 55 minutes ago | Updated 1 minute ago
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According to the Florida incorporation database, a man named Sayfullo Saipov started a company named ‘Sayf Motors’.
I bet it was an automatic.
SAYFULLO SAIPOV of Tampa, FL is the suspect. Probably Chechnian.
Who is responsible for this? THATS RIGHT, YOU AND ME!
We made the perp feel threatened and alone by one micro aggression after another until his righteous anger boiled over /s
Sayf Motors was incorporated in 2011. If it is the same guy, then he has been in the United States for several years.
Sayf Motors was incorporated in both OH and FL.
Hussein Obama and George Bush before him tried very hard to teach Americans that peaceful Muslims are welcomed and will bring so much good to the west!
Your comments are Islamophobic. You and people like you are doing so much to destroy the good will our leaders brought to America. It's President Trump's fault, the Muslims know he doesn't like them so it should be expected that some will lash out at others./sarc
Curse the Amish farmers and their tendency to yell Allahu Akbar.
If I am associating the wrong religion with that phrase, please let me know.
That means that “someone” is an idiot.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, Democrats run an ad about white people running over children using a pickup truck with a Gadsden license plate and a Gillespie bumper sticker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx2oY0i0Wg4
Yawn. Pick up the bodies, mop-up the blood and the guts, make excuses for Islam and illegals, bury the story, and get back to bashing Trump and white people.
Same as it ever was.
I knew it had to be the fault of White Christian conservative Trump supporters.
Why the HELL is Shep on TV giving detailed instructions on the route of the Parade there,, I know they can find it out, but DAMN!
That’s the truck they’re showing on the news.
It is the correct truck.
The truck was rented in New Jersey.
Now up to 8...:-( sad...
Calm down, take a deep breath and repeat after me:
Donald Trump Is President of the United States and Hilliary isn’t.
Repeat as necessary....................
Time for Muslim control.
with a high capacity fuel tank.
NO ONE needs more than 7 gallons at a time.
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