1 dead, 17 exist sore inside crash throughout fundraiser for blaze victims

1 dead, 17 exist sore inside crash all over fundraiser for blaze victims

BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — One anthropoid actuality was killed accompanied by every one one other accompanied by another 17 people injured when a automobile struck a crowd gathered at a Pennsylvania bar for a fundraiser for victims of a house blaze that killed 10 earlier this month; the male police speak was the driver was arrested inside a short hour dated afterward inside the beating demise of his mother nearby.

The crash occurred at concerning 6:15 p.m. Saturday outer external outside the Intoxicology Department bar inside Berwick, which had been scheduled to clasp an all-day fundraising event to good victims of the Aug. 5 blaze, that killed septet adults accompanied by every one one other accompanied by trio children inside Nescopeck.

Pennsylvania State Police identified the driver while 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes of Nescopeck. He was arraigned early Sunday earlier to noon on place of set of two counts of criminal homicide.

Shortly following the crash was reported, troopers were called concerning a male "physically assaulting" a woman less than a mile away inside Nescopeck. Troopers arrived to find that Sura Reyes had been arrested by local police accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a woman was dead.

Luzerne County Coroner Francis Hacken confirmed Sunday that the victim, Rosa D. Reyes, 56, of Nescopeck — deceased of multiple traumatic injuries following actuality struck by a automobile accompanied by every one one other accompanied by at that hour dated assaulted accompanied by a mallet — was the mother of have a suspicion Sura Reyes.

Geisinger Medical Center said it received 15 patients following the crash, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by five remained inside critical condition while trio were listed inside fair condition, a medical organization spokesperson said Sunday morning. Seven patients had been treated at hospitals accompanied by every one one other accompanied by released.

Trooper Anthony Petroski III told reporters at a midnight report conference that Sura Reyes was not currently a have a suspicion inside the fire, the spring of which remains under investigation.

"This is a complete tragedy inside a inhabitants where there's by that hour dated been tragedy," Petroski said. "We are going to do our position of position of employment to the finest of our abilities to behaviour a thorough investigation not only for the families nevertheless the inhabitants members. They're by that hour dated hurting."

Sura Reyes was denied bail accompanied by every one one other accompanied by remained inside Columbia County prison pending an Aug. 29 preliminary hearing. Wilkes-Barre newspapers reported that he said only "Sorry" inside response to reporters' questions while he was taken from Shickshinny police station. It wasn't unswerving away understandable whether he had a legal practitioner to remark on his behalf.

The earliest funerals for victims of the blaze were held Friday, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by additional were scheduled for Sunday accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Monday.

The bar called the events an "absolute tragedy" accompanied by every one one other accompanied by said on its Facebook page that they will exist closed until further watching accompanied by every one one other accompanied by would exist fond of privacy "while we grieve add try to procedure the events that occurred."

1 dead, 17 exist sore inside crash all over fundraiser for blaze victims