A 46-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in Saturday's death of a 60-year-old Long Beach woman who was killed when the suspect allegedly intentionally drove a vehicle into a group of pedestrians at Shoreline Drive and Aquarium Way, according to the Long Beach Police Department.
Police say the FBI responded to the scene.
"At this time, there is no indication that this incident was an act of terror nor associated with the current violence in Israel; however, the investigation is ongoing," the LBPD said.
One woman was killed and several other people were hospitalized Saturday when a driver plowed through a crowd of pedestrians in Long Beach, according to police.
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The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) said officers were called to a car crash around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Shoreline Drive and Aquarium Way. There, investigators learned a man struck several vehicles and pedestrians at a crosswalk, killing a woman.
“It was just terrible,” one witness told NBC4. “So, we just started, myself and a few other people, just started kind of praying for her. There was a young man that just started yelling and running towards her, just yelling, ‘no,’ and everything was just chaotic.”
LBPD did not release the name of the woman killed in the crash. The department said an “unknown number” of people were hospitalized in the incident, including one person whose condition is described as critical.
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The investigation is ongoing.
