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Richard Rojas, says he set out to ‘kill them all’ after plowing through 23 pedestrians at Times Square – Expected officers to shoot him

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers"><em><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;808080&semi;"><strong>Is there a way we can deport this man to the land of crazies&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;">Times Square killer driver says he set out to &OpenCurlyQuote;kill them all’ after plowing through 23 pedestrians in NY&&num;8217&semi;s iconic promenade<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Richard Rojas&comma; told cops he had smoked pot laced with PCP before his vehicular assault<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Expected officers to shoot him after he wilfully ran people down on the streets of New york&comma; Thursday <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Killed Alyssa Elsman&comma; 18&comma; and injured 23 others &&num;8211&semi; four of them critically including Alyssa&&num;8217&semi;s 13-year-old sister&comma; Ava<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>26-year-old US Navy vet has two prior DWIs from 2008 and 2015<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;">A week earlier he was charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after pulling a knife on a man inside his apt<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Arraigned Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Charged with on one count murder&comma; one count aggravated vehicular homicide&comma; <&sol;strong><strong>20 counts of attempted murder<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module top h">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-figure"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-186573" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;richard-rojas-at-his-arraignment-friday4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Richard Rojas at his arraignment Friday4&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;>Richard Rojas looking sullen at his arraignment on Friday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">A seemingly unrepentant mad man declared that he wanted to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;kill them all” after mowing down pedestrians on packed sidewalks&comma; prosecutors said Friday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The new details emerged as Killer Times Square motorist Richard Rojas&comma;  was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on one count of murder&comma; one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and 20 counts of attempted murder&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rojas’ deadly rampage began just before noon Thursday when he steered his Honda Accord onto the sidewalk at Seventh Ave&period; and W&period; 42nd St&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Erratic US Navy vet Richard Rojas&comma; 26&comma; also told cops he had smoked pot laced with PCP and expected officers to shoot him following the Thursday sidewalk assault&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I wanted to kill them&comma;” he barked to an officer after the wreck&comma; according to the criminal complaint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-gallery-wrapper"><span class&equals;"ra-title"><span class&equals;"ra-title"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-185897" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;times-square-crash4&period;png" alt&equals;"Times square crash4" width&equals;"706" height&equals;"754" &sol;><strong>The ex-Navy officer used his vehicle like a battering ram&comma; plowing into nearly two dozen pedestrians as his maroon Honda accord fatally plowed into pedestrians in Times Square&comma; on Thursday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>To all intents the former Navy officer purposefully used his vehicle like a battering ram&comma; plowing into nearly two dozen pedestrians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The mayhem Rojas unleashed on unsuspecting New Yorkers and tourists on one of the busiest cityscapes in the world&comma; ended when the maroon Honda Accord sedan barreled into a metal barrier at W&period; 45th St&period; The driver&comma; somehow unharmed&comma; tried to flee the scene but was stopped by a traffic agent and a pair of onlookers&period; His vehicular assault <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;18&sol;bronx-man-causes-mayhem-plowes-his-car-into-pedestrains-at-nys-union-square-1-dead-23-injured&sol;">Killed was 18-year-old Michigan tourist Alyssa Elsman&period; <&sol;a>Her 13-year-old sister Ava was among the 22 others injured&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Four remain in critical condition&period; Ava reportedly&comma; was suffering from a broken pelvis and cracked lung&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-185915" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;rojas-is-taken-into-custody-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Rojas is taken into custody 2" width&equals;"896" height&equals;"868" &sol;>The ex-Navy officer was taken down by a bystander&comma; then arrested by cops as he made a bid to flee the scene after killing a young tourist and injuring 23 others &comma; Thursday in New York&&num;8217&semi;s Time Square<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"ra-body"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-186582" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;alyssa-elsman2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alyssa Elsman2&period;jpg" width&equals;"780" height&equals;"780" &sol;> Drug-crazed Rojas killed 18-year-old Alyssa Elsman&comma; in his vehicular rampage&comma; Thursday afternoon<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<article>Authorities were awaiting blood test results to confirm what&comma; if any&comma; drugs Rojas had consumed&period; Rojas  who a year before he left the service in May 2014&comma; Rojas spent two months at a Naval prison in Charleston&comma; S&period;C&period;&comma; returned from his stint in the Navy a troubled man said those who know him&period; <&sol;article>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">He since had issues with alcoholism and often&comma; complained of nightmares and raved about demons and devils&comma; according to his friends&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-186597" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;victims-lay-strwen-in-times-square5&period;png" alt&equals;"Victims lay strwen in Times Square5&period;png" width&equals;"1042" height&equals;"634" &sol;>Victims lay strewn on the sidewalk in Times Square after the midday madness of Richard Rojas on Thursday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-186577" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;richard-rojas4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Richard Rojas4" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;>NYPD officers escort unrepentant Rojas into Manhattan Criminal Court for his arraignment Friday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Prior to his latest episode the troubled vet was arrested for DWIs in 2008 and 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; his delusions seemed to have worsened  in recent days&period; in the  week leading to his Times Square implosion&comma; Rojas was charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after he pulled a knife on a man inside his apartment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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