New York Halloween Terror attack; How It All Happened

The alleged driver of a Home Depot rental pickup truck zoomed at least 10 blocks down the popular West Side Highway bike path from West Houston to Chambers streets, hitting nearly a dozen pedestrians and bicyclists before crashing into a school bus near Stuyvesant High School and elementary school P.S. 89, authorities said.

Eight people were killed and almost more than a dozen were seriously injured when a truck driver deliberately mowed down people and targeted a school bus in lower Manhattan Tuesday According to the officials authorities who are still investigating this whole dilemma, the called it an act of terror, officials tell News 4 New Yorku.

The witness who saw the truck driver emerge from the pickup said he went to go help the school bus driver after the truck crashed into it.

"I wasn't sure why he was so spaced out and then I went to the other side, it was all caved on. A poor girl was stuck right above the wheel well. There were two kids that were just stuck by the window. It was all blown out," he said.

Two adults and two children on the bus were injured, police said.

According to eye witnesses’ side of the story, they saw the driver swerved his truck recklessly towards the school bus filled with students. They said the driver screamed "Allah' akbar" which means “God is great” in English, he then emerged carrying two BB guns – fake guns -- and started running around before he was confronted by a nearby uniformed officer on patrol, who shot him in the abdomen.
One witness told News 4, "A guy got out with his biker jacket with a stripe, and started shooting up the place. All the kids were in the courtyard at P.S. 89 and started running... That's where we ran up here at North End Avenue and Warren. "A man said, 'Run, run for your life,'" said Margaret Year wood.
Another witness described a gruesome scene as he saw two of the bike path victims apparently unconscious on the ground amid the chaos and panic: "One gentleman’s leg was hanging by skin. Another man had tire marks across his chest. His eyes were open."