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Halloween tragedy; auto slams into crowd of trick-or-treating kids

Three people, two adults and a child, died after a vehicle crashed into dozens of trick-or-treaters in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon, according to the New York Daily News. Three people were killed in the, including a 10-year-old girl. She never gave me any problems.

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It all started at 4:50 p.m. when Unger was driving west down Morris Park Ave., near near Radcliff Ave., located in the Morris Park neighborhood. That’s when his auto struck a black Toyota Camry, hit several other vehicles, and then careened onto the sidewalk. Police didn’t know how Leka was related to the others.

Two young girls, aged 3 and 9, as well as a 21-year-old woman, were taken to Jacobi Medical Center and treated for injuries which are not life-threatening.

The accident is now under investigation as police try to determine how and why the driver lost control of his auto.

Perez, who took care of the girls full-time while their single mother was at work, was a Vietnam veteran and recipient of a Purple Heart.

A search team using sophisticated scanning sonar has found the wreckage of a vessel believed to be the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing with 33 crew members October 1 during Hurricane Joaquin, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said late Saturday.

Her grandmother, Miriam Perez, said she was heartbroken by the loss of her husband.

“It was all because my dad wanted to take my girls for a second round of trick-or-treating”, she said. Not long after, Natalia Perez received a phone call from police telling her she needed to go to the hospital.

He said the victim who was fatally injured was a man.

“He saved her”, he added.

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“I had a lot of dreams for Nyanna”. John del Giudice said to WABC 7, “I didn’t comprehend what I was seeing until I realized what I was seeing”.

Three Trick-Or-Treater's Die After Car Crashes In The Bronx