translated from Spanish: Driver admits that he ran over pedestrians in California

SUNNYVALE, California, USA (AP) — a California driver said Wednesday researchers who deliberately ran over seven people who were walking on a sidewalk in a quiet suburb of Silicon Valley, leaving eight injured, but did not indicate their reasons. Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, remains arrested on eight charges of attempted murder while four of the victims remain hospitalized with serious injuries. A girl of 13 years of Sunnyvale is in critical condition. Peoples did not resist arrest after the incident on Tuesday night and was collaborating with the research, said Captain Jim Choi of the police of Sunnyvale.” He didn’t say why he did it”, said Choi. “If said that it was an intentional act. He expressed no remorse to where we can say”. The mother of Peoples, Leevell Peoples of Sacramento, said that he could not imagine any situation in which your child’s good manners embistiera deliberately innocent, unless it was something related to post-traumatic stress, says she, suffered while it He worked as a sniper in the army in Iraq.” Unless the car had a fault, it would have not done that. It is like a perfect model citizen,”he said. “He is a veteran of the army, is a good guy, he has never been arrested. I promise: was not deliberate. In any case, it was by the army.”
Isaiah Peoples, auditor at the Department of defense in Mountain View, received treatment for PTSD in 2015, according to his mother.

Choi said that police are already investigating the report of disorder. He said that Peoples did not stop after hitting the pedestrians, and continued his journey until he crashed into a tree. Six people were hospitalized, including the youngest victim, a 9 year old boy who was treated for minor injuries. A 15-year-old boy received attention from paramedics.

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