{"id":800788,"date":"2026-05-16T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/800788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:56:37","slug":"suspected-drunk-driver-who-killed-2-in-nyc-sidewalk-crash-to-be-criminally-charged-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/800788\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected drunk driver who killed 2 in NYC sidewalk crash to be criminally charged: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/15\/us-news\/out-of-control-nyc-driver-plows-into-group-of-men-on-sidewalk-killing-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driver who killed two people<\/a> and badly injured three others when he barreled onto a sidewalk on the Upper West Side will be criminally charged, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Elvin Suarez of Morningside Heights was hit with two counts of manslaughter, three counts of vehicular manslaughter, two counts of vehicular assault and one count of DWI, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD attending to the driver of the fatal sidewalk car crash in Morningside Heights. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Suspected drunk driver who killed two people and badly injured three other in a horrific sidewalk crash in Morningside Heights will be criminally charged, according to the police. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Elvin Suarez was hit with two counts of manslaughter, three counts of vehicular manslaughter, two counts of vehicular assault and one count of DWI. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Two men, including a father of triplets, were killed when the 61-year-old driver lost control of his black Mercedes-Benz near Amsterdam Avenue and West 109th Street in Morningside Heights around 6 p.m Friday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a hospital and his blood was tested for alcohol, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The chain-reaction crash began when the driver sidewiped a car on East 108th Street, onlookers said. The crash involved seven vehicles, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver struck a group of pedestrians sitting outside a barber shop, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver who killed two people and badly injured three others when he barreled onto a sidewalk on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":800789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5303,5416,5248,21610,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-800788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-car-crashes","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-morningside-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116584840318842920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}