A 34-year-old woman drove a pickup truck with two youngsters inside through a Kansas youth soccer game, killing two, including a 6-year-old boy and wounding 11 others, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After hitting multiple people at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, the driver \u2014 who is the mother of a kid playing at the facility \u2014 shouted \u201cOh my God, Oh my God, what have I done?!\u201d as she was pulled from the vehcile by other parents, a reporter at a press conference recounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the car mowed down the victims, civilians at the soccer game sprang into action and delivered \u201clife-saving assistance\u201d to the wounded until first responders arrived, Wichita Police Department Chief Joe Sullivan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old woman drove a pickup truck through a Kansas youth soccer game, killing two, including a 6-year-old boy. via REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was truly amazing, but I think it\u2019s indicative of the Wichita community,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 35-year-old man and a 6-year-old boy were pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:25 p.m. incident. They were not related to each other, Wichita Police Department Captain Aaron Moses told reporters Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Five children aged five through nine were rushed to the hospital with traumatic injuries, Moses said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In total, 11 people were hospitalized and 10 had traumatic injuries some of which were serious but not believed to be life-threatening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sullivan added that police officials still don\u2019t know why the crash occurred and are still investigating on the scene.<\/p>\n
The woman was believed to have had a child playing soccer at the time, but not on the field where the onslaught took place, Moses said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eleven people were wounded after the driver struck multiple people at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita. via REUTERS<\/p>\n
The woman drove from the east side of the sports complex to the field which was on the west end of the park, Moses said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is a heartbreaking day for Wichita; families came to Stryker Sports Complex to enjoy a Saturday afternoon watching their children play soccer. Nobody could have imagined the tragedy that would unfold,\u201d Wichita Mayor Lily Wu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart breaks for the families who\u2019ve lost loved ones, especially the family grieving the loss of a child,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vehicle remained at the scene following the incident and the driver is now in police custody and has been cooperative with the investigation, Moses said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 35-year-old man and a 6-year-old boy, who are not related to each other, were pronounced dead at the scene. via REUTERS<\/p>\n
A witness described the vehicle as a \u201cblack pickup truck\u201d and pictures from the scene shared by local WSMV4 News showed a truck of that color parked in the middle of the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[A] black pickup truck came plowing through the youth soccer fields, hitting multiple people before stopping 100-200 yards down the fields,\u201d a witness told local outlet 12 News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police officials said that they are continuing to investigate the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sullivan urged the public to be patient as investigators continue to probe the incident and said more updates would be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old woman drove a pickup truck with two youngsters inside through a Kansas youth soccer game, killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,1027,2149,9,11,10,58,12164],"class_list":["post-376172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car-crashes","tag-homicide","tag-kansas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news","tag-youth-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376172","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=376172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}