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http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/las-vegas-strip-accident/index.html
The Las Vegas Strip was blocked off after a car mowed down more than 30 pedestrians Sunday night, authorities said.
At least one person is dead and seven are in critical condition, fire officials said. Medics tended to 37 people.
Authorities don't yet know whether the incident was an accident or intentional. The driver was in custody and was undergoing various tests, including one for alcohol, authorities said.
Rows of ambulances and police cars gathered at the scene, their lights flickering. A witness described a chaotic scene as people fled.
"Everyone was running ... and as I was running, I saw a car up on the sidewalk coming toward us," a witness told CNN affiliate KLAS. "I saw a lady, she didn't seem like she wanted to stop the car, she had both hands on her wheel and she was looking straight forward."
People scrambled to stop the driver, she said.
"I saw men running after her, yelling, 'stop, stop!' As she was passing, we saw people running after her. Everyone was so frantic and just running around."
Antonio Nassar, who was at the Strip, described a disturbing scene.
"The car rolled right in front of me. By the time I looked over to the right, all you could see was [her] driving away and people were bouncing off the front of the car, you can hear it," Nassar told the affiliate.
"The windshield is smashed at this point. She rode the sidewalk, she came to a stop at the Paris intersection, people are punching into the window ... she accelerated again and just kept mowing people down."
Traffic snaked down the streets as cars were diverted near the Paris Las Vegas hotel, where the Strip was shut down.
11:44 p.m. ET: At least one dead and seven in critical condition, fire officials said. There were a total of 37 patients.
11:45 p.m. ET: Officials don't yet know whether it was an accident or intentional.
11:50 p.m. ET: The driver is in custody and is undergoing various tests, including one for alcohol, authorities said.
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in before im tagged..
IM STILL ALIVE MUTHAFUCKAS!!!!
cant get rid of me that easy! lol -
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Was that u @kat ?
u were just posting from vegas... -
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-probe-report-mass-injury-crash-front-casino-3588017410:01 p.m.
The crash in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood hotels occurred on a busy stretch of the Las Vegas Strip across from the dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino where visitors crowd sidewalks as they was walk from one casino to another. The Miss Universe pageant was being held nearby at the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort & Casino at the time of the crash.
Joel Ortega, 31, of Redlands, California, said he and his wife, Carla, were in Las Vegas for the weekend and found themselves blocked from walking on the sidewalk toward the Paris Hotel & Casino. They could see police investigating ab0out a block away from the scene of the crash.
"At first, I thought it was a movie shoot," Joel Ortega said, "I thought maybe we'd see someone famous."
But then they learned that it was a crash scene. Joel Ortega said it made them remember how their neighborhood was disrupted after the Dec. 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, near their home.
11:15 p.m.
Justin Cochrane, a property manager from Santa Barbara, California, said he was having dinner at a sidewalk restaurant outside the Paris Hotel & Casino and across the street from the famous Bellagio Fountain when the crash took place.
The car appeared to be going 30 to 40 mph when it first hit the pedestrians on Las Vegas Boulevard, Cochrane said. "It was just massacring people," he said.
The vehicle then went further down the road and backed into another crowd of pedestrians, he said.
Cochrane said he couldn't understand why the car went into the crowd a second time. "Why would it slow to go around and then accelerate again?" he said. "I thought it's a crazy person."
Cochrane said he saw children and adults injured and on the ground as the car drove away.
11:29 p.m.
Police say a woman intentionally swerved her car onto a busy sidewalk two or three times Sunday and mowed down people outside a Las Vegas casino, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others.
Police say the woman, who is in her 20s, had a 3-year-old child in the car with her at the time. The child was unharmed.
The woman who police said had recently arrived in Las Vegas drove a 1996 four-door Oldsmobile with Oregon license plates.
Lt. Dan McGrath says police now believe this was an intentional act by a woman in her 20s who "went up and off these streets, two or possibly three times." The woman is being interviewed and is having her blood drawn. She is being held in jail with charges pending.
Six patients who had been admitted to area hospitals in critical condition were stable after their initial treatment. -
Off that wakka ?
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Inb4 she was in isis
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Lakeisha Holloway
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Oh oh
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Man this ? had the whole strip shook last night. My black ass lucky I was chilling in the downtown area and not on the strip. Strip is overrated anyway
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Great. Just what we need. Police are already ? about pedestrian laws. ? doing 3 days in jail for Jaywalking.
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Crazy ?
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Well, let's just hope that she gets the same 'lone wolf, mental illness'.... Sike. She's black. The media is already saying she was' stoic and lucid' during the attack. She doesn't stand a chance.
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She had her toddler with her? Poor kid never had a chance.
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Well, let's just hope that she gets the same 'lone wolf, mental illness'.... Sike. She's black. The media is already saying she was' stoic and lucid' during the attack. She doesn't stand a chance.
"Holloway has been homeless more than once. During a press conference, Metro Sheriff Joe Lombardo said that she had been in Las Vegas for a week, homeless and living with her child out of her car.
Holloway was homeless at least once before, during her freshman year of high school and had to fend for herself, an Oregon newspaper, The Skanner News, reported in 2012. Her mother was addicted to alcohol, she told the newspaper."
Mental health issue. -
damn
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Yeah she's done. She's getting arraigned Tuesday. She told the cops "She wanted other people to feel the pain I feel". They slapped her with Murder, attempted murder, child endangerment, & leaving the scene of a crime.
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Smh. That ? is broken.
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? offf munkkeeeee
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lol/smh @ the ? who died
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Turfaholic wrote: »Yeah she's done. She's getting arraigned Tuesday. She told the cops "She wanted other people to feel the pain I feel". They slapped her with Murder, attempted murder, child endangerment, & leaving the scene of a crime.
She is black and lower socioeconomic status. They'll throw the book at her. That rich white kid killed 4 people and got off with that 'affluenza' ? . Smh.
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