Police said one person was killed and more than 30 were injured when a woman allegedly intentionally drove her car on a busy sidewalk along the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters that 24-year-old Lakeisha Holloway “repeatedly drove her car over pedestrians,” even as some ran up to her vehicle and pounded on her window asking her to stop.
Holloway remained in custody on Monday, prosecutors said. Police did not announce a motive.
Lombardo told reporters that it does not appear that the case was an act of terrorism, though the investigation was still in its infancy and he wasn’t entirely ruling that out as a potential motive.
The Strip was closed between Flamingo Road and Harmon Avenue while police investigated. That section of road is home to the Paris, Planet Hollywood and Bellagio hotels and casinos.
Lombardo told reporters that police were reviewing multiple surveillance videos from the Las Vegas Strip. He said police had “pretty detailed video that shows that it was an intentional act.”
District Attorney Steven Wolfson told reporters at the news conference that prosecutors will file an initial charge of murder with a deadly weapon, but additional charges would be forthcoming.
Those charges may include child abuse and neglect, Wolfson said, as Holloway had a 3-year-old girl in the vehicle at the time of the alleged incident. The child was not injured, authorities said.
Lombardo said at least three of the 30-plus injured suffered critical head injuries.
A rebel commander who previously worked for President Bashar Assad’s army along with dozens of people were killed on Monday after a series of Russian air strikes hit the Northwest region of Syria.
Activists reported to ABC News that the attack was one of the deadliest incidents since Russia began their airstrikes three weeks ago. The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, stated that at least 45 people were killed, including civilians and rebels. Overall, the group states that Russia’s aerial assaults have killed 370 people, and one third of those are civilian deaths, according to Reuters.
The group of rebels call themselves the “Free Syrian Army” and has received foreign military aid from the U.S., including very powerful anti-tank missiles. The group also confirmed the death of Basil Zamo, its chief of staff.
Russia continues to claim that their air strikes are aimed at defeating ISIS but multiple news agencies, including ABC News, report that many of the areas hit by the air strikes have not been occupied by ISIS, but rebels.
The International Business Times reports that medical organizations in the area are accusing Russia and the al-Assad regime of targeting hospitals in the northern province of Syria. Three hospitals have been hit and two of the hospitals were closed. One was closed due to no longer being operational, and the other closed after medical staff decided to evacuate, fearing they would be targeted further by Russian forces.
The conflict in Syria has resulted in the deaths of more than 250,000 people since the civil war began in March 2011, according to ABC News.
Medical officers reported 131 civilians were killed in a Saudi-led airstrike that hit a wedding party, in what is reported to be the single deadliest incident since the start of Yemen’s civil war.
Yemeni medical officials stated at least 80 women were killed in the attack. The Saudi-led and U.S.-backed coalition supposedly struck the wedding party by accident. The attack struck a village near the town of Mokha. The region is largely populated by livestock traders and fishermen. It is reported that there is no heavy military presence in the area.
“They struck a wedding, there were only civilians there and most of them died because the Mokha hospital is closed because of supply — no drugs, no fuel, no electricity, no nothing, so the staff left,” said Hassan Boucenine, of the Geneva-based Doctors without Borders. The provincial capital of Taiz could not be used due to ongoing fighting.
Officials of the Saudi-led coalition could not be reached immediately for a comment.
The U.N. reports at least 2,355 civilians have been killed since the violence started in March. The main fight is between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to Zaidi Shia rebels known as Houthis, who forced Hadi out of the capital of Sanaa in February.