A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after police say he plowed his vehicle into a community event, killing one person and injuring 17 others.
According to a news release from the Pennsylvania State Police, the man then drove away and beat a woman to death in a nearby town.
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Officials say it happened just after 6 pm Saturday night when the man drove his car into a crowd of Community members in Berwick, Pa. who were holding an all-day fundraiser to benefit the victims and families of a fatal house fire that happened in nearby Nescopeck earlier in the month.
After the man plowed into the crowd of people, police received a call that a man in the Nescopeck Borough of Luzerne County was seen physically assaulting a woman. When state troopers arrived on the scene, the woman was dead and the man had been arrested by police.
Pennsylvania State Police identified the man as 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes of Nescopeck, and said he is a suspect in both cases.
Reyes is being charged with two counts of criminal homicide and has been denied bail.
The investigation is being considered ‘very active’
No further details have been released.
