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Skip to main content Currently Reading He yelled at 'yuppies' in a park. Then he drove his truck into a crowd of picnickers, police said. Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A crowd of picnickers was sitting on folding chairs on a grass median in Chicago on Saturday, sipping drinks and trading snacks, when a man in a pickup truck stopped to yell that their dogs were misbehaving. The crowd asked the man to leave, witnesses told the Chicago Tribune. Instead, the man used an anti-Asian slur toward one picnicker, witnesses said - and then rammed his red Ford F-15...

A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his car into a picnic, according to police. Witnesses said the man also made anti-Asian comments during the incident, according to local news outlets. Timothy Nielsen, 57, was arrested Saturday and faces charges of four counts of attempted murder after he "intentionally jumped a curb in his vehicle and drove at a group of pedestrians gathered for a picnic," according to the Chicago Police Department. Police said Nielsen struck a 42-year-old woman with his truck before she was briefly trapped underneath the vehicle. The...

The scene in the 2900 block of West Logan Boulevard after a man behind the wheel of a pickup truck ran into a pedestrian on May 1, 2021. Charlie J. Johnson, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — A 57-year-old motorist apparently angered by “yuppies with dogs” allegedly yelled anti-Asian comments before slamming into group of friends enjoying a birthday picnic, seriously injuring a woman in Logan Square, witnesses and officials said. The crash happened about 5:15 p.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of West Logan Boulevard when a red pickup truck jumped a curb and went up onto the gr...

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Attempted murder charges have been filed against a man who allegedly drove his car into a group of picnicgoers Saturday, Chicago police said.