NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A man driving a U-Haul truck struck and injured several pedestrians in New York City on Monday before police were able to pin the careening vehicle against a building following a mileslong pursuit through Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
At least four people were hurt at two locations, fire department officials said. The severity of their injuries wasn’t immediately clear.<\/p>\n
The truck sped through the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, hitting people on a sidewalk at one point, before police stopped it more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) away near the entrance to a tunnel leading from Brooklyn to Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Aerial video from news helicopters showed the truck on a sidewalk, its path blocked by a police cruiser. Authorities were examining the truck to make sure it didn’t contain explosives.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for New York City Mayor Eric Adams said a suspect was in custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no additional credible threats at this time,\u201d Fabien Levy tweeted.<\/p>\n
The incident coincided with the start of the death penalty phase in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov,<\/a> an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in 2017 by mowing them down with a rented truck.<\/p>\n It was not clear whether the two events were related.<\/p>\n