A man driving a U-Haul truck struck and injured several people in New York City Monday before police were able to pin the careening vehicle against a building fafter a mileslong pursuit through Brooklyn.
At least eight people were hurt at two locations, including two people who were in critical condition, the fire department said in an email.
The truck sped through the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, hitting people on a sidewalk at one point, before police stopped it more than 3 miles away near the entrance to a tunnel 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 didn't contain explosives.
A spokesperson for New York City Mayor Eric Adams said a suspect was in custody.
“There are no additional credible threats at this time,” Fabien Levy tweeted.
The driver was a 62-year-old man with no prior arrests, the New York Post reported. The vehicular attack appeared random, law-enforcement sources told the Post. Police were looking into the possibility that the suspect was homeless and living out of the truck.
An NYPD spokesperson said the incident was not believed to be terror-related, the Post said.
The official said at least five pedestrians were hurt in the crash, which coincided with the start of the death penalty phase in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in 2017 by mowing them down with a truck.
It was not clear whether the two events were related.
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