(New York) A man driving a U-Haul truck struck and injured several pedestrians in New York City on Monday before police were able to pin the vehicle against a building after a mile-long chase through Brooklyn.
At least eight people were injured in two locations, and two of them are in critical condition, fire department officials said by email.
The truck drove through Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, hitting people on a sidewalk at one point, before police stopped it more than three miles away near a tunnel entrance leading from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Aerial video from news helicopters showed the truck on a sidewalk, its path blocked by a police cruiser. Authorities were examining the truck to make sure it did not contain explosives.
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A spokesman for New York City Mayor Eric Adams said a suspect was in custody.
“There are no other credible threats at this time,” wrote Fabien Levy on Twitter.
The incident coincided with the start of the death penalty phase in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, an Islamist extremist who killed eight people in 2017 by mowing them down with a rental truck.
It is not known if the two events are related.