There’s “no indication” that an Arizona motorist deliberately drove his pickup into bicyclists close to Phoenix, killing two individuals and critically injuring a 3rd particular person, police mentioned Monday.
Pedro Quintana-Lujan’s white Ford F-250 was headed south on Cotton Lane Bridge, going over the Gila River, when he “caught the barrier wall of the bridge and then the car crashed into 20 cyclists,” Goodyear Police Chief Santiago Rodriguez advised reporters.
Karen Malisa, 61, of Goodyear, was pronounced useless on the scene Saturday morning, police mentioned. David Kero, 65, a customer from Michigan, died at a hospital.
One of many 19 riders who had been hit remained in important situation Monday.
“There is no such thing as a indication that this was an intentional act or something apart from an remoted incident,” Rodriguez mentioned. Officers “don’t really feel that there’s something on the market, like an act of terrorism or something like that.”
Regardless of no preliminary indicators of intent, Rodriguez mentioned he was assured a prison case might be introduced towards Quintana-Lujan, 26, of Phoenix.
He’s being held in lieu of $250,000 bail on two counts of manslaughter, three counts of aggravated assault, 18 counts of endangerment and two counts of inflicting severe harm or loss of life by a transferring violation.
A blood pattern taken from the motive force was still being evaluated on Monday. It wasn’t clear Monday afternoon whether or not he had been assigned an legal professional or had employed one to communicate on his behalf.
The crash occurred simply earlier than 8 a.m. as riders with West Valley Cycle had been on their common Saturday journey, police mentioned.
Bicycling is a very fashionable exercise in Goodyear, Mayor Joe Pizzillo mentioned.