After an SUV packed with gasoline canisters crashed into a crowd outside a Rochester, New York, concert venue early on New Year’s Day, killing two and injuring five more, CNN reported that the FBI is looking into the possibility of a domestic terrorist incident.
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A Ford Expedition and a Mitsubishi Outlander crashed early on New Year’s Eve morning outside a Rochester concert venue, forcing both vehicles into a sizable crowd of people who were crossing the street at a crosswalk, according to Rochester Police Chief David Smith.
Following the collision, the cars caught fire, and it took the Rochester Fire Department more than an hour to put out the fire.
Smith stated that after first responders discovered “at least a dozen” gasoline canisters inside and outside the SUV, the Rochester Police Department Bomb Squad was called to the scene.
According to a person familiar with the inquiry, the FBI is helping with the probe and is currently treating it as a possible act of domestic terrorism, as CNN reported.
According to the source who spoke with CNN, the Ford driver also left a journal and a suicide note in his hotel room.
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The tragic collision happened on New Year’s Day at around two in the morning outside Rochester’s Kodak Center, a sizable performance hall. A jam band from Rochester, New York, called Moe. performed for about a thousand people on New Year’s Eve. When the Ford SUV and the Mitsubishi SUV collided, police were already at the event venue to help people who were crossing in front of the venue. “The two vehicles went through a group of people who were in the crosswalk and then into two other vehicles due to the force of the collision,” stated Police Chief Smith.
The driver of the Ford was taken to the hospital with potentially fatal injuries, while the two occupants of the Mitsubishi perished at the site. After the automobiles struck three additional pedestrians on the street and one further driver, all of them were taken to the hospital, one of them was allegedly in critical condition. Rochester Mayor Malik Evans urged residents and concertgoers to come forward with any information they may have on the collision, and he also appealed for patience from the public while the ongoing investigation. The mayor declared, “No piece of information is too small.”