6 people were killed as well as xv others injured inwards New York City on Tuesday afternoon afterward a vehicle drove downward a cycle path that runs amongst the Hudson River inwards Manhattan, constabulary said.
The New York City Police Department, inwards a post service on Twitter, said that i vehicle struck another, as well as thus the driver of i of the vehicles "got out displaying faux firearms as well as was shot yesteryear police.”
Police said the suspect was taken into custody.
A constabulary spokesman posted a photograph showing a white pickup truck on the cycle path with its forepart destination smashed. The truck had the logo of the Home Depot hardware shop chain on its door.
An witness told ABC Channel vii that he saw a white pick-up truck motility S downward the cycle path amongst the West Side Highway at amount speed as well as hitting several people. The witness, who was identified solely every bit Eugene, said bodies were lying exterior Stuyvesant High School, i of the city's elite populace schools.
He too reported hearing near ix or x shots, merely was non certain where they came from.
A video evidently filmed at the scene as well as circulated online showed scattered bikes on the cycle path as well as 2 people lying on the ground.
City Hall said Mayor Bill de Blasio had been briefed near the incident. The work of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the governor was heading to the scene.