A man in Pennsylvania has been arrested after allegedly plowing his car into a community event, killing one person and injuring 17 others, before driving off and fatally beating a woman in a nearby town, Pennsylvania State Police said in a press release Sunday.
The latest: The second woman killed was identified as the mother of the alleged assailant, Oswaldo Sura Reyes, the Luzerne County Coroner’s office told ABC News. Her autopsy showed that she was hit by a car and assaulted with a hammer, ABC News reported.
Driving the news: Community members in Berwick, Pa. were holding an all-day fundraiser on Saturday to benefit the victims and families of a deadly house fire in nearby Nescopeck earlier this month, WNEP-TV reported.
- Shortly after 6 p.m. a driver drove his car into the crowd of people gathered at the event. Police arrived on the scene to discover 1 person dead and 17 injured, per the press release.
- A short time later police received a call that a man in the Nescopeck Borough of Luzerne County had been spotted physically assaulting a woman. Upon state troopers’ arrival on the scene, they discovered the woman was dead and the man had been detained by municipal police, the press release said.
The big picture: Reyes, 24, of Nescopeck, was identified by police on Sunday afternoon and authorities noted that he is a suspect in both cases.
- The suspect was arraigned on Sunday on two counts of criminal homicide and denied bail.
- “These investigations are very active,” Pennsylvania State Police said in the press release, but released no further details.
- Information on the victims and the injured — who have been taken to various local hospitals — is not being released at this time.
