IT WAS a beautiful, sunny afternoon, the perfect day to cycle or walk along the Hudson river on Manhattan’s west side. Parents were beginning to gather at schools to pick up their excited children, many wearing Halloween costumes. But the idyllic autumn day came to an abrupt end at 3.05pm when a man in a hired pickup truck hopped the curb and began driving southbound on the pedestrian and bicycle path along the West Side Highway. He struck several pedestrians and cyclists along his 20-block route. At Chambers Street the truck rammed into a school bus, injuring children and adults inside. In all, eight people, including tourists from Argentina and Belgium, were killed. A dozen more were wounded, some critically.
The driver then stepped down from the truck, brandishing what appeared to be two handguns. A police officer on patrol confronted him with his own weapon and fired, striking him in the abdomen. The driver is now in police custody, in hospital. (His guns were later found to be a paint-ball pistol and a pellet gun.) Bill...Continue reading
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