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
I’m worried about tonight, with the children out and about and ISIS calling for attacks.
Prayers up for their safety all over this land.
CBD from Ace of Spades HQ says he saw the truck on the bike path in the 40s, a mile uptown.
That ad is the sickest thing I have ever seen.
Or was he Hawaiian - “Aloha Snackbar”?
The legislature actually banned the cops’ guns at one point, without realizing it. They had to go back and fix it.
Ignorance of both guns and the constitution.
Sayfullo Saipov from Tampa, Florida
That is the killer.
The Left fantasizes about White men who love liberty running over Muslim and Latino children. In the real world, people shouting ‘Allah-u-Akbar’ drive rental trucks into Americans. STOP **RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM**
CBS called it Road Rage.
wonder why he went to NYC... maybe because it’s mostly a gun free zone?
—Police sources tell News 4 that a box truck driver was traveling the wrong way down a bicycle path, injuring several people.—
“I’m not trying to be funny, but does the direction of travel even matter for a box truck driving on a bicycle path? WTF?”
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In leftist-run NYC, not following bike laws was his greater offense.
“I’m worried about tonight, with the children out and about and ISIS calling for attacks.”
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I don’t believe there’s as much trick-or-treating going on in heavily populated areas as there used to be back in the day. Back then, we’d come home with pillowsacks full of goodies to rot our teeth for days to come!
Got in on a F****** “Diversity Visa”.
I KNOW!!!! You know i work overnight and was a sleep for awhile.
Just waiting for her to get home
Thanks for the heads up!!
Oh no. I hope he doesn't get in trouble. /s
It will Ruin a Good Resume! 3rd
The latest POS to murder Americans while they went about their daily lives. *SPIT*
Muslims are evil.
I wouldn’t sweat it, AC. Back in the 90’s, Americans valued civilization and respected things like bike paths. But then 9/11 happened followed by the Zero Effect that enabled hundreds of thousands of militant-minded ‘refugees’ to poison the minds of our college youth and drive acting out as the new norm. I’m betting NYers will find out quicker than anyone why additional funds allocated a decade ago to install barriers around the city somehow didn’t include the busiest bike path in the world.
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