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1 dead, 17 injured after car drives into Pennsylvania fundraiser; driver suspected in fatal attack after crash
A man drove through a crowd gathered for a fundraising event Saturday, killing one person and injuring 17, before fatally attacking a woman in a neighboring
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A man drove through a crowd gathered for a fundraising event Saturday, killing one person and injuring 17, before fatally attacking a woman in a neighboring borough, Pennsylvania authorities said.
The suspect, identified as Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, 24, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Doug Brewer on two open counts of Criminal Homicide, Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release early Sunday.
Reyes of Nescopeck, a small township in Pennsylvania's eastern Luzerne County, “was denied bail and remanded to the Columbia County Correctional Facility,” the release said.
No details were released about the victims.
At an earlier news conference on Saturday evening, State Trooper Anthony Petroski said that a vehicle drove through a “community event” in Berwick around 6:15 p.m.
After the crash, the suspect is accused of fatally assaulting a female in Nescopeck, where he was taken into custody by municipal police, Petroski said.
Police are investigating whether the suspect intentionally drove into the crowd, and have not said whether there is a connection between the suspect and the female who was killed in Nescopeck.
NBC affiliate WBRE of Wilkes-Barre reported the crowds had gathered at a Berwick benefit event to raise funds for the families of the three children and seven adults who died in an early morning house fire Aug. 5 in Nescopeck.
Officials have not released the identities of the two people who were killed. Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese said the victim in the Berwick crash was a 50-year-old woman from Wilkes-Barre who was declared dead at the scene.
The 17 injured people were taken to four area hospitals, Petroski said. Their conditions were not immediately available from law enforcement Saturday night.
Natalie Buyny, a spokesperson for health care provider Geisinger, said it had been treating 15 patients from the Berwick incident at three of its locations. Six were still being evaluated for conditions; four were critical; three were fair; and two have been treated and released, she said.