Five people were killed after a car that was evading police collided into another vehicle full of teenagers in Yonkers, New York on Tuesday night.
Police initially tried to pull over a white Infiniti sedan at about 9:23 p.m. that was driving in an “erratic manner” when the driver sped off, Yonkers police said Wednesday. The department said that though officers “disengaged and did not pursue” the driver, the car continued to accelerate at “beyond reckless speeds.”
The Infiniti collided with a Nissan occupied by four 18-year-old men at an intersection at a force that caused the Nissan to split in half, police said. The teenagers died at the scene while the driver, a 36-year-old resident of Mount Vernon, was taken to a nearby hospital.
The man, identified as Devon Haywood, later died from his injuries.
