Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A New York State Supreme Court judge on Monday convicted Daniel Hyden on all 12 counts related to a fatal July Fourth car-ramming incident in New York City.
Four were killed and seven others were injured during the July Fourth festivities when a car plowed through a crowd that had congregated at a Lower East Side park.
Hyden, 46, was accused of being drunk behind the wheel when he crashed into the crowd. On Monday, he was convicted of four counts of second-degree murder, four counts of second-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and one count of aggravated vehicular homicide.
"While this verdict won't bring [the victims] back to life, I hope that this conviction can bring at least some measure of comfort for their friends and family," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. said in a statement announcing the conviction.
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