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.