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NEW YORK -- Police and witnesses say a motorist drove onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial and struck several people, then emerged from the vehicle screaming and firing something that appeared to be a gun.

Multiple people died in the incident.

An Associated Press photographer on the scene Tuesday witnessed at least two bodies lying motionless on the path beneath tarps.

The incident occurred at West Street and Chambers Street around 3:10 p.m, the station reports. The NYPD said on its Twitter account just before 3:30 p.m. that one person is in custody. The department isn't looking for any other suspects, CBS New York reports.

Witnesses told local media a vehicle drove down a nearby bike path and struck pedestrians and cyclists. A man who was riding in an Uber along the West Side Highway near Chambers street says he saw several bleeding people on the ground after a truck struck several people.

CBS New York reports the incident is being investigated as a possible case of road rage in which a driver exited a vehicle and opened fire.

A witness said the truck had also collided with a small bus and one other vehicle.

A large number of police vehicles could be seen near West Street and Chambers Street, which is near a community college, a high school and a few blocks north of the National Sept. 11 Memorial.

The NYPD says information is preliminary and the investigation is ongoing.

Residents were cautioned to avoid the area and to expect many emergency personnel in the area. Nearby Stuyvesant High School was on lockdown as a precaution, the station reports.

Additional information wasn't immediately available.

Truck Driver Kills Eight in Lower Manhattan Terrorist Attack



Eight people were killed and a dozen more were injured Tuesday when a motorist in a rented pickup truck deliberately drove down a bike path in lower Manhattan and mowed down several people before crashing into a school bus. Officials said it was a terrorist attack.

The gunman hopped out of the truck and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before firing a BB or pellet gun, four senior law enforcement sources told NBC News.

A police officer on patrol in the area returned fire, hitting the suspect in the abdomen and ending the Halloween horror less than a mile from the World Trade Center, site of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil on Sept, 11, 2001. [this dirt bag must be very surprised to still be alive...jumping out of a truck in front of the cops after committing a deed like this with a gun in each hand...even if they weren't real firearms...he undoubtedly expected to end this by being "martyred"...]

"This was an act of terror and particularly cowardly act of terror," Mayor Bill de Blasio said later at a briefing. "We know this action was intended to test our spirit."

O'Neill did not identify the Home Depot from where the truck was rented. Nor would O'Neill comment on whether the suspect lived in New York City or was a "radicalized American."

But the weapons they recovered turned out to be a pellet gun and a paint ball gun. And records revealed he lived for a time in Paterson, N.J.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this appeared to be the work of a "lone wolf." [I wonder if the people who were bitching about the term "lone wolf" being used to describe a white supremacist who commits an act of terrorism on their own will be similarly unhappy with its use in this case of Islamist-Jihadist terrorism...well, okay, I don't really wonder that...]

"There's no evidence to suggest a wider plot," he said.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force joined in the investigation.

Hours after this, NYC hosted their annual Halloween strut in the same area.

Bicycle Bill wrote:I don't even want to read the comments in the online articles about this because I know all too well there would be several hundred postings from various ignorant and anonymous nutbags lamenting the fact that he only managed to kill 8 cyclists, and that it served them (the cyclists) right since they should get all those fucking bicycles off the road anyway.... even though they *WERE* off the road and the ISHIT 'freedom fighter' drove ONTO a dedicated cycle path to wreak his havoc....

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The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military.

Jarlaxle wrote:Well, he's 100% correct on that one.