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Richard Rojas, 26, is seen fleeing the scene of the crash in New York’s Times Square
http://wtop.com/government/2017/05/officials-man-who-ran-over-pedestrians-was-hearing-voices/
A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to “kill them all” and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday.
Richard Rojas, 26, also said he had smoked marijuana laced with PCP sometime before making a U-Turn onto the sidewalks of the bustling Crossroads of the World and plowing straight ahead into frightened tourists, according to a criminal complaint.
Officials are awaiting toxicology results, though Rojas “had glassy eyes, slurred speech, and was unsteady,” during his arrest, the complaint said.
“He murdered in cold blood,” Assistant District Attorney Harrison Schweiloch said. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Elsman, of Portage, Michigan, was killed in the crash. Her 13-year-old sister was among the 22 injured.
Three people are in critical condition with serious head injuries, and a fourth is being treated for a collapsed lung and broken pelvis, according to the complaint.
Rojas, wearing the same red T-shirt and jeans he was photographed in the day earlier, appeared subdued Friday during a brief court appearance where prosecutors detailed murder and attempted murder charges.
He didn’t enter a plea and was held without bail. Rojas’ lawyer, Enrico Demarco, had no comment. His family and friends who attended the hearing cried outside court and didn’t speak to reporters. His next court appearance is May 24.
Rojas, who lived with his mother in the Bronx, drove his car Thursday from his home to Times Square, waited for traffic to start moving and then made a U-turn, authorities said. He barreled straight up the sidewalk, knocking down some pedestrians as others ran in terror, before he crashed his car into protective barriers.
“That goes to his state of mind,” said William Aubry, assistant chief of the New York Police Department.
Photographers snapped pictures of a wild-eyed Rojas on Thursday after he climbed from the wrecked car and ran through the streets. A group that included a security supervisor at a nearby Planet Hollywood restaurant tackled him.
Rojas has several prior criminal cases that paint a picture of a troubled man. He pleaded guilty last week to harassment in the Bronx after he was accused of pulling a knife on a notary in his home.
“You’re trying to steal my identity,” he said, according to prosecutors.
He also had two previous drunken driving cases.
Rojas enlisted in the Navy in 2011 and was an electrician’s mate fireman apprentice. In 2012, he served aboard the USS Carney, a destroyer. Rojas spent his final months in the Navy at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 2012, he was arrested and accused of beating a cab driver whom he said had disrespected him by trying to charge too much, according to the arrest report. The arresting officer said Rojas screamed, “My life is over!” as he was being detained. After his arrest, Rojas told the officer he was going to kill all police and military police he might see after his release from jail, the Jacksonville sheriff’s office report stated.
Alan Ceballos, an attorney who represented Rojas in that case, said the state charges were dropped after the military stepped in to take jurisdiction over the criminal case.
Navy records show that in 2013 Rojas spent two months at a naval prison in Charleston, South Carolina. He was discharged in 2014 as the result of a special court martial, a Navy official said.
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Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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Fox News
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Date: May 19, 2017 02:56PM
Richard Rojas, 26, is seen fleeing the scene of the crash in New York’s Times Square
http://wtop.com/government/2017/05/officials-man-who-ran-over-pedestrians-was-hearing-voices/
A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to “kill them all” and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday.
Richard Rojas, 26, also said he had smoked marijuana laced with PCP sometime before making a U-Turn onto the sidewalks of the bustling Crossroads of the World and plowing straight ahead into frightened tourists, according to a criminal complaint.
Officials are awaiting toxicology results, though Rojas “had glassy eyes, slurred speech, and was unsteady,” during his arrest, the complaint said.
“He murdered in cold blood,” Assistant District Attorney Harrison Schweiloch said. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Elsman, of Portage, Michigan, was killed in the crash. Her 13-year-old sister was among the 22 injured.
Three people are in critical condition with serious head injuries, and a fourth is being treated for a collapsed lung and broken pelvis, according to the complaint.
Rojas, wearing the same red T-shirt and jeans he was photographed in the day earlier, appeared subdued Friday during a brief court appearance where prosecutors detailed murder and attempted murder charges.
He didn’t enter a plea and was held without bail. Rojas’ lawyer, Enrico Demarco, had no comment. His family and friends who attended the hearing cried outside court and didn’t speak to reporters. His next court appearance is May 24.
Rojas, who lived with his mother in the Bronx, drove his car Thursday from his home to Times Square, waited for traffic to start moving and then made a U-turn, authorities said. He barreled straight up the sidewalk, knocking down some pedestrians as others ran in terror, before he crashed his car into protective barriers.
“That goes to his state of mind,” said William Aubry, assistant chief of the New York Police Department.
Photographers snapped pictures of a wild-eyed Rojas on Thursday after he climbed from the wrecked car and ran through the streets. A group that included a security supervisor at a nearby Planet Hollywood restaurant tackled him.
Rojas has several prior criminal cases that paint a picture of a troubled man. He pleaded guilty last week to harassment in the Bronx after he was accused of pulling a knife on a notary in his home.
“You’re trying to steal my identity,” he said, according to prosecutors.
He also had two previous drunken driving cases.
Rojas enlisted in the Navy in 2011 and was an electrician’s mate fireman apprentice. In 2012, he served aboard the USS Carney, a destroyer. Rojas spent his final months in the Navy at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 2012, he was arrested and accused of beating a cab driver whom he said had disrespected him by trying to charge too much, according to the arrest report. The arresting officer said Rojas screamed, “My life is over!” as he was being detained. After his arrest, Rojas told the officer he was going to kill all police and military police he might see after his release from jail, the Jacksonville sheriff’s office report stated.
Alan Ceballos, an attorney who represented Rojas in that case, said the state charges were dropped after the military stepped in to take jurisdiction over the criminal case.
Navy records show that in 2013 Rojas spent two months at a naval prison in Charleston, South Carolina. He was discharged in 2014 as the result of a special court martial, a Navy official said.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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Gerrymanderer2
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Date: May 19, 2017 02:58PM
Who had the presence of mind to take a high resolution horizontal picture to perfection? Unbelievable.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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If Gerry had a son
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Date: May 19, 2017 03:00PM
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Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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convince me
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Date: May 20, 2017 12:04AM
someone try to give me a logical reason why AFTER he is tried and found guilty of WHY he should not be put to death?
also, WHY his death should not be immediate or within a month?
there are 100s of witnesses - death - dozens injured and NO QUESTION of what he did
he even openly admits he wanted to kill and he did
anyone want to try to convince me that we should pay to house, feed, medical etc........this guy for the next 30 years?
also, WHY his death should not be immediate or within a month?
there are 100s of witnesses - death - dozens injured and NO QUESTION of what he did
he even openly admits he wanted to kill and he did
anyone want to try to convince me that we should pay to house, feed, medical etc........this guy for the next 30 years?
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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trumpitality
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Date: May 20, 2017 01:37AM
^ I feel the same, but we have Due Process as Law here. Gotta do it.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
Posted by:
Louie Chevrolet
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Date: May 20, 2017 06:45AM
He drove a Honda. Almost all the crazies drive jap cars. Back in the good old days when everyone drove American cars , these kind of things didn't happen.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
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road master
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Date: May 20, 2017 07:02AM
Louie Chevrolet Wrote:
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> He drove a Honda. Almost all the crazies drive jap
> cars. Back in the good old days when everyone
> drove American cars , these kind of things didn't
> happen.
The last American car was built by buick in 1996. All the cars today are global cars and General Motors makes the least American cars ,sadly.
The unions caused all this, yes their plan backfired. I will never buy a UAW built product. Fuck them and their anti-American greed. The last truly American Buick Roadmaster wagon rolled off the assembly line April 19th 1996.
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> He drove a Honda. Almost all the crazies drive jap
> cars. Back in the good old days when everyone
> drove American cars , these kind of things didn't
> happen.
The last American car was built by buick in 1996. All the cars today are global cars and General Motors makes the least American cars ,sadly.
The unions caused all this, yes their plan backfired. I will never buy a UAW built product. Fuck them and their anti-American greed. The last truly American Buick Roadmaster wagon rolled off the assembly line April 19th 1996.
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Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
Posted by:
KKKillary KKKlinton
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Date: May 20, 2017 07:33AM
trumpitality Wrote:
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> ^ I feel the same, but we have Due Process as Law
> here. Gotta do it.
Especially now that president Trump is at the helm. No tolerance for terrorists.
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> ^ I feel the same, but we have Due Process as Law
> here. Gotta do it.
Especially now that president Trump is at the helm. No tolerance for terrorists.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
Posted by:
Malcolm Xtra Black
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Date: May 20, 2017 07:50AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Who had the presence of mind to take a high
> resolution horizontal picture to perfection?
> Unbelievable.
This was taken by one of your faggot lib friends gerry.
How do I know?
Because a real American would be tackling the guy and beating his ass instead of filming him. You libs just want to film the hatred of America and then fap to it.
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> Who had the presence of mind to take a high
> resolution horizontal picture to perfection?
> Unbelievable.
This was taken by one of your faggot lib friends gerry.
How do I know?
Because a real American would be tackling the guy and beating his ass instead of filming him. You libs just want to film the hatred of America and then fap to it.
Re: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’ inspired by ISIS
Posted by:
Louie Chevrolet
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Date: May 20, 2017 08:27AM
road master Wrote:
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> Louie Chevrolet Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > He drove a Honda. Almost all the crazies drive
> jap
> > cars. Back in the good old days when everyone
> > drove American cars , these kind of things
> didn't
> > happen.
>
>
> The last American car was built by buick in 1996.
> All the cars today are global cars and General
> Motors makes the least American cars ,sadly.
> The unions caused all this, yes their plan
> backfired. I will never buy a UAW built product.
> Fuck them and their anti-American greed. The last
> truly American Buick Roadmaster wagon rolled off
> the assembly line April 19th 1996.
Yes, you are helping prove my point. I bet terrorists have never shot anyone from the back of a 96 Buick Roadmaster wagon, their preferred vehicles are Toyota pickups.
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> Louie Chevrolet Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > He drove a Honda. Almost all the crazies drive
> jap
> > cars. Back in the good old days when everyone
> > drove American cars , these kind of things
> didn't
> > happen.
>
>
> The last American car was built by buick in 1996.
> All the cars today are global cars and General
> Motors makes the least American cars ,sadly.
> The unions caused all this, yes their plan
> backfired. I will never buy a UAW built product.
> Fuck them and their anti-American greed. The last
> truly American Buick Roadmaster wagon rolled off
> the assembly line April 19th 1996.
Yes, you are helping prove my point. I bet terrorists have never shot anyone from the back of a 96 Buick Roadmaster wagon, their preferred vehicles are Toyota pickups.