Our allies, members of this community want to see justice happen here, and we know it will,' he told WSVN.įort Lauderdale Police have not revealed details about the driver, who was taken into custody but it was unclear if he had been charged.
'To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community.'Ĭhris Caputo, Wilton Manors City Commissioner, also tweeted that 'it seems increasingly probable' that the collision was an accident.įort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis originally feared that the crash was intentional. 'Our fellow Chorus members were those injured and the driver is also a part of the Chorus family,' the group's president Justin Knight said in a statement, via NBC. The driver of the pickup truck that hit the crowd during the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade was reportedly part of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus family and was not purposely targeting the LGBTQ community. Officials believe that an incident in which a man was killed and another seriously injured after a driver hit spectators at a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday evening was an accident.
