A driver who crashed his pickup truck into a July Fourth barbecue and killed four people in 2024, in a New York City park, was convicted of murder on Monday.

A Manhattan judge delivered the verdict in Daniel Hyden’s trial, where victims’ relatives, survivors and witnesses described how a holiday gathering of friends and relatives suddenly became a horrific scene when the truck jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence and barreled into the group.

Ana Morel, 43; Emily Ruiz, 30; Lucille Pinkney, 59; and a nephew, Herman Pinkney, 38, were killed in the crash in Corlears Hook Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

“These individuals tragically died because of Mr. Hyden’s irresponsible, callous, criminal actions,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters after the verdict. S

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