{"id":233779,"date":"2026-05-16T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:01:10","slug":"suspected-drunk-driver-who-killed-2-in-nyc-sidewalk-crash-to-be-criminally-charged-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233779\/","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 barrelled onto an Upper Manhattan sidewalk 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><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39398223\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/scene-three-people-injured-car-127896158.jpg\" alt=\"A car crashed onto the sidewalk in New York, with a damaged front end, parked next to a tree with a Mexican flag tied to it.\" class=\"wp-image-39398223\"  \/>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><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39398241\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/scene-three-people-injured-car-127896421_7c4e0b.jpg\" alt=\"Two damaged cars, a light brown van and a dark SUV, with a New York license plate on the van and crime scene tape in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39398241\"  \/>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 barrelled onto an Upper Manhattan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,1015,57,12255,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-233779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-morningside-heights","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}