New Orleans PD have confirmed a suspect has been arrested and charged with nine counts, including two of vehicular homicide.
"We were able to apprehend the subject so quickly because citizens stopped this individual, because they thought they were helping someone who had just been involved in a one-car accident," Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson told local media.
Rourk and two other people were able to wake the driver, and Rourk, who initially didn't realize anyone was hit, told the driver:"I'm pretty sure you're the guy who wrecked the car. You better go back there." The driver then asked whether he had killed anyone. EMS Director Emily Nichols told WVUE-TV that three of the five people brought to the hospital were in critical condition.One onlooker, Dane Barrymore, told The New Orleans Advocate that he was smoking a cigarette outside a market when he saw a dark sports car speeding down the street. The driver swerved into the bike lane to try to go around a vehicle.
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