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Adrian Reyes, 24, and of Nescopeck, was arrested on Sunday morning after plowing his car into a fundraiser event for 10 house fire victims on Saturday. He also killed his mother, Rosa Reyes, 56.
24-year-old adrian reyes, now under arrest and charged with both attacks. two counts of criminal homicide. residential structure fire, multiple people entrapped. reporter: this new tragedy following that deadly fire in the same area, tearing through the single family home. according to state police, seven adults and three children died in the flames. harold baker, one of the first on the scene, a volunteer firefighter and related to 14 people in that burning home. i lost my son, my daughter, my grandson, two other grandkids in there, my father-in-law, and my brother-in-law. all lost, and my sister-in-law, all lost. reporter: now additional trauma. as more of his friends and relatives were in that crowd hit by the car, just days after he lost so much in the fire. and police say reyes confessed to driving into that crowd and killing his mother. police say when they asked him why he did it, he said he was
beat and killed his mother with a hammer police arrested and charged 24-year-old adrian reyes with two counts of murder this is a complete tragedy in a community where there s already been tragedy reporter: social media videos show the bar was holding a benefit for the family members of a deadly house fire that killed ten people the next town over volunteer firefighter harold bager lost eight members of his family in the fire, including his son and daughter according to the new york times. last night he responded to the second incident before learning his own relatives were injured at the crash site. how do you begin to make sense of all these tragedies one after the other? i can t make sense of it. i don t know why it s going on reporter: more funerals today for the victims of the house fire a long procession of first responders driving by the scene of the car crash breanna miller