Associated Press
NEW YORK — A fourth person has died after a driver crashed his pickup truck into a Fourth of July gathering in New York City, police said.
Emily Ruiz, 30, died Tuesday of injuries she sustained when a truck plowed into a group celebrating the holiday in a park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, police announced Thursday.
A mother and son are among the dead after a pickup truck struck a group celebrating July Fourth in a Manhattan park
Three victims were initially pronounced dead after the crash, and several others were injured.
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Tim Pruitt, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society, which is representing Hyden, said Hyden “is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a zealous defense.”
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