Police Say SXSW Driver Deliberately Targeted Crowd

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed

The case of an alleged drunk driver who drove into a crowd of concertgoers at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival has taken a dark turn.

Police now say that 21-year-old Rashad Owens deliberately drove through the crowd of concertgoers after fleeing from police on suspicion of drunken driving.

“For me from his actions, from what I’ve seen this is an individual that showed no regard for human beings. He plowed through in his attempt to get away,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told Fox News.

Owens was scheduled to perform later that night.  He has a long criminal record and the car he was driving had been reported stolen.

Owens killed two people who were riding a moped and before swerving around a police officer that tried to stop him and drove through the crowd.  He was subdued after trying to flee on foot after driving into a taxi.

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