At least four people mowed down by U-Haul in Bay Ridge: ’emotionally disturbed’ Asian man in 60’s in custody after hitting police officer and pedestrian with rented truck
- Several people, including a police officer, were hit by the vehicle
- The incident happened just after 11:30 a.m. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
- The driver is believed to be in custody but no further details have been released
At least four people, including a police officer, are injured after being mowed down by a U-Haul truck on a Bay Ridge sidewalk.
The driver, described by police sources to as an Asian man in his 60s, is in custody.
His motive remains unclear, but he is described as “emotionally disturbed”.
At 11 a.m. he struck several people on 5th Avenue and the Bay Ridge Parkway before driving north.
Surveillance footage shows the U-Haul seconds before hitting a cyclist in Bay Ridge
NYPD Bomb Squad members investigate a rental truck that was pulled over in New York on Monday, February 13, 2023 and the driver arrested
He was eventually stopped at Red Hook.
Harrowing surveillance footage from some of the businesses that line his route shows him mowing into a cyclist.
The incident coincides with the first day of the death penalty trial of Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in a rented Home Depot truck on the West Side Highway in 2017.
Police have yet to confirm a link between Saipov’s case and today’s incident.
A police officer was injured in Bay Ridge today, but the extent of their injuries is unknown.
It is unclear how badly the victims are injured. The NYPD is yet to confirm many details, but the driver of the U-Haul is believed to be in custody
The scene at Bay Ridge this afternoon after the U-Haul truck crashed into pedestrians and a police officer
Another view of the location of the U-Haul. Police are believed to have chased the vehicle for some time before it stopped
