Timothy Nielsen, 57, was charged with four counts of attempted murder for allegedly driving into a crowd over the weekend, the Chicago Police Department said.
Illinois Man Charged With Intentionally Driving Truck Into Chicago Picnic, Injuring Woman
On 5/4/21 at 6:07 PM EDT
A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder on Monday after police said he intentionally drove his truck into a picnic gathering over the weekend, injuring at least two victims.
Timothy Nielsen, 57, was arrested Saturday and faces charges of attempted murder after he intentionally jumped a curb in his vehicle and drove at a group of pedestrians gathered for a picnic, according to the Chicago Police Department.
During the incident, Nielsen hit a 42-year-old woman with his truck, causing her to be briefly trapped underneath the vehicle. The woman was injured and has since been released from a nearby hospital, where she was treated for lacerations and other injuries, police said Monday. Anther victim was treated at the scene.
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He yelled at yuppies in a park. Then he drove his truck into a crowd of picnickers, police said.
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
May 4, 2021
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A crowd of picnickers was sitting on folding chairs on a grass median in Chicago on Saturday, sipping drinks and trading snacks, when a man in a pickup truck stopped to yell that their dogs were misbehaving.
The crowd asked the man to leave, witnesses told the Chicago Tribune. Instead, the man used an anti-Asian slur toward one picnicker, witnesses said - and then rammed his red Ford F-150 into the group, striking two people as others, including a pregnant woman, scrambled to escape, police and prosecutors said.
A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his car into a picnic, according to police. Witnesses said the man also made anti-Asian comments during the incident, according to local news outlets.
Timothy Nielsen, 57, was arrested Saturday and faces charges of four counts of attempted murder after he intentionally jumped a curb in his vehicle and drove at a group of pedestrians gathered for a picnic, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Police said Nielsen struck a 42-year-old woman with his truck before she was briefly trapped underneath the vehicle. The woman, who was seriously injured was transported to a nearby hospital and was treated for lacerations and other injuries and has since been released, according to the police department.
The scene in the 2900 block of West Logan Boulevard after a man behind the wheel of a pickup truck ran into a pedestrian on May 1, 2021. Charlie J. Johnson, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â A 57-year-old motorist apparently angered by âyuppies with dogsâ allegedly yelled anti-Asian comments before slamming into group of friends enjoying a birthday picnic, seriously injuring a woman in Logan Square, witnesses and officials said.
The crash happened about 5:15 p.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of West Logan Boulevard when a red pickup truck jumped a curb and went up onto the grass median between inner and outer Logan Boulevard before hitting at least one adult pedestrian, a woman, according to Chicago Fire Department Chief Walter Schroeder and police spokesman Anthony Spicuzza.