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Photos from the scene where a truck drove into a crowd taking part in The Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors. Local 10 News reporter Christian De La Rosa said he saw a white pickup truck lined up with other floats when it hit the gas and ran over two men standing by to take part in the parade on Wilton Drive. One of the victims has died, said Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, who was at the parade. Police said it happened at the corner of Northeast 15th Street and Northeast Fourth Avenue. He described it as an attack on the LGBTQ community.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz in tears while in a convertible at the parade.One person was killed and another injured when a pickup truck plowed into a group of people at the start of the Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival on Saturday night in Wilton Manors, according to the mayor of Fort Lauderdale.įort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis was at the event and said he witnessed the incident which happened just as the parade was getting started around 7 p.m. Photos and video from the scene showed Democratic U.S. Wilton Manors is a tight-knit community near Fort Lauderdale with a vibrant downtown filled with cute shops, where people line up for Rosie’s famous hamburgers or to gossip and drink at Georgie’s Alibi Monkey Bar. “As the facts continue to be pieced together, a picture is emerging of an accident in which a truck careened out of control.” I feared it could be intentional based on what I saw from mere feet away,” he said in a Twitter statement Sunday. Trantalis, who is Fort Lauderdale’s first openly gay mayor, initially told reporters the act was deliberate, adding to the confusion Saturday night. “I was getting phone calls from people I knew at the other end waiting for the parade saying, ‘Is this true? Is that true, do we have anything to worry about?’ You don’t know at that point.”įort Lauderdale Police said no arrests have been made saying they are conducting a thorough investigation with the FBI, nothing in a statement they are “considering and evaluating all possibilities.” “People were really distraught and some people were crying,” said Rolli, who explained that the crash happened in an area where the floats were lining up, so there weren’t as many parade-goers. In the confusion, it was unclear what happened.
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Rolli was on the other side of the float and didn’t witness the crash, but jumped off immediately and ran to the victims.
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The driver continued across all lanes of traffic, ultimately crashing into a fence on the other side of the street, police said. Trantalis said the driver of a pickup truck suddenly accelerated when he was told he was next in the parade, crashing into the victims. Rolli was on the float in front of the chorus truck along with Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and other city officials at a staging area where the floats were being readied. To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community,” President Justin Knight said in a statement Sunday, calling it “an unfortunate accident.” “Our fellow Chorus members were those injured and the driver is also a part of the Chorus family. The driver and the victims were a part of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus family, a small 25-member group of mostly older men. “The early investigation now indicates it looks like it was a tragic accident, but nobody’s saying finally what it is,” Rolli told The Associated Press in a phone interview.