Authorities say Chicago man intentionally drove into picnickers Timothy Nielsen
Updated 5/3/2021 10:16 PM
A man announced his intent before driving his pickup truck onto a grassy median on Chicago s North Side and striking two people in a group he labeled yuppies with dogs, Cook County prosecutors said Monday.
Timothy Nielsen, 57, was charged Monday with four counts of attempted murder and was ordered held without bond by Circuit Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke.
Prosecutors say 10 people were celebrating a birthday Sunday when Nielsen drove up to group and complained about the behavior of the group s dogs. After members of the group asked him to leave, he reversed his pickup and then drove onto the median, authorities said. A 42-year-old woman, was briefly trapped under the truck and was seriously injured. Another victim was treated at the scene.
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.
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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.
After complaining about their dogs, man drives into picnickers at Chicago park: police
Updated May 04, 2021;
CHICAGO (AP) A man announced his intent before driving his pickup truck onto a grassy median on Chicago’s North Side and striking two people in a group he labeled yuppies with dogs, Cook County prosecutors said Monday.
Timothy Nielsen, 57, was charged Monday with four counts of attempted murder and ordered held without bond by Cook County Circuit Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke.
Prosecutors say 10 people were celebrating a birthday Sunday when Nielsen drove up to group and complained about the behavior of the group’s dogs. After members of the group asked him to leave, he reversed his pickup and then drove onto the median. A 42-year-old woman, was briefly trapped under the truck and was seriously injured. Another victim was treated at the scene.