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This is it." armstrongs 10-year-old son managed to get out of the van that went under water. the woman who stopped to help him describes the boy as both courageous and terrified as he told her what happened. >> gets in the car and he thinks theyre just going for a drive and i said tell me what else happened. he said, we we just going for a drive and mom was driving the car frantically. she was speeding, and by the time they got down by the ramp, he was, like, mommy, mommy what are you doing? sto...

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>> nobody knows what my niese went through. >> reporter: angela gillian came to the banks of the hudson river to mourn. her niese, lashandra armstrong packed her kids into the van and drove to the river blocks from her home. neighbors said armstrong never showed signs anything was wrong. >> well mannered, very polite. they used to go in and wave hi, hi. thats how we were. we never got in nobody elses business. >> reporter: only thele eldest child survived, scrambling out of a window and swimming...

>> reporter: well, it really is a tragedy and the community is really coming to terms, grappling with the scope of this tragedy. they want to find out why this young mom, who apparently had never caused any problem, what drove her to do this. >> >> nobody knows what shes been through. nobody. >> grief sfrik en, she came to the river to mourn. her niece, 25-year-old lashandra armstrong, packed her four kids can, ages 10, 5, 2, and 11 months in the family minivan and then drove into the river bloc...

Now the tragic story of an apparent murder-suicide and the remarkable effort of a 10-year-old boy to save himself from the ice cold hudson river. police in newberg, new york, say a young mom put her children into a minivan and drove them into a river. only the 10-year-old survived. deb feyerick, what are officials saying there about this terrible tragedy? >> well, randi, something was definitely going on in the life of 25-year-old lashandra armstrong and her grief stricken aunt was here a few mo...

[ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and youll say... my money. my choice. my meineke. a tragic apparent murder-suicide story out of newburgh, new york, today. police say that clearly distraught woman lashandra armstrong, a mother of four intentionally drove her minivan into the hudson river. her kids were inside. her oldest son a 10-year-old boy, is the only survivor. lashaun says that he escaped by essentially climbing through a window, and he was...

That all of the children were inside of the vehicle when it entered the water, but the the 10-year-old child managed to escape. it appears that from the investigation he managed to hit the power windows and opened up one of the windows and climbed out of the vehicle before the vehicle sunk. information gathered thus far indicates that lashandra armstrong intentionally drove the vehicle into the river, and the city of newburgh police are still investigating as we speak today. >> deb feyerick, liv...

Put down his window and scrambled out of the vehicle as it began to sank. this is what police say happened. >> investigation has revealed that all of the children were inside of the vehicle when it entered the water, but the 10-year-old child managed to escape. it appears from the investigation that he managed to hit the power windows and opened up one of the windows and climbed out of the vehicle before the vehicle sunk. >> now, apparently yesterday, ms. armstrong picked up the three kids from ...

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