By CBSNewYork Team
Six people have been hospitalized after a driver plowed a jeep into a family on a New York City sidewalk, critically injuring one of them, in what the victims believe was a targeted attack, cops said.
The Jeep, which has temporary paper license plates, finally stopped when it slammed into a tall chain-link fence, ripping through part of it, surrounding the park.
After relatives tried to detain the driver, someone fired a gun into the air to scare them off, police said.
Surveillance video captured the moments right after the crash. People are seen running after the Jeep mounts a sidewalk and strikes several members of the same family, pinning two of them under the vehicle in the process.
Hit-and-run Jeep driver crashes into Bronx family, hurting six, one critically — gun fired in chaotic aftermath https://t.co/RsyHjVPttZ pic.twitter.com/Dl4cInyp3x
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