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Woman on Honeymoon Killed and 11 Others Injured after Car Speeds along Venice Beach Boardwalk Targeting Pedestrians



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Alice Gruppioni, 32, who was on her honeymoon died a few hours after she was struck by the crazed driver at 6 p.m. Saturday
On Sunday, Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, was in custody and faces a murder charge after handing himself in
Witnesses said the driver was 'out for blood' methodically aiming at pedestrians

By Daily Mail UK, 4 August 2013

An Italian woman on her honeymoon was struck and killed on Saturday night and 11 others injured when a car sped deliberately through a crowd of helpless pedestrians, on the Venice Beach Boardwalk in Los Angeles.

Alice Gruppioni, 32, was rushed to hospital after the crash that happened at 6 p.m. and tragically died a few hours later of her injuries, with her new husband, Simone Rattu Damonte, by her side.

Today, authorities announced a suspect, Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, was in custody in connection with the horror hit-and-run after he handed himself in. He has been booked into the LA County Jail on a murder charge.

One of the 11 people injured by the crazed driver is in critical condition and two others are seriously injured, according to officials. The remaining eight sustained at least minor injuries and a four-year-old child is among the injured, according to reports.


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Victim: Alice Gruppioni, pictured, was on her honeymoon when she was struck and killed on Venice beach



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Find this car!: Caught on security footage, this is the car that plowed through a crowd of pedestrians Saturday night in Venice Beach

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RUN!: People scatter as the car barrels down the Venice Beach Boardwalk at them

Witnesses to the carnage that left the popular promenade in chaos told local media that the car drove 'purposefully down the boardwalk,' leaving a trail of injured people and shocked beachgoers in its aftermath.

Describing the car as in control despite going as fast as 60mph, one witness told KCAL that 'the driver was out for blood.'

Security video shows the man parking his black car alongside the seaside boardwalk as the sun sank, surveying the idyllic scene for several minutes before getting back into the car and speeding into the crowd.

It shows hundreds of people walking lazily or sitting at cafes before the black car suddenly appears and sends them scrambling wildly.


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Tragic: Alice Gruppioni, left, and Simone Rattu Damonte, right, had recently been married

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Travels: The Italian couple, pictured, chose to spend their honeymoon in the United States


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Carnage: Gruppioni, was struck at around 6 p.m. and died in hospital of her injuries at around 9:30 p.m


Witness calls Venice beach car crash "absolute mayhem"

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The driver fled the scene and about an hour later, just as police were circulating word that they were seeking a black Dodge with a driver in his 20s, Campbell walked into a police station in neighboring Santa Monica, told officers he was involved in the boardwalk incident, Neiman said.
Police then found a car nearby that they believe belonged to the suspect.

Another witness described the horrific scene from his vantage-point down the boardwalk.

'I was half a mile from the scene, but you could see just this mass of people trying to get out of the way ... just a lot of people screaming,' runner Daniel Rigedor said

'I saw somebody flying up in the air… when I came upon the scene, there were a bunch of people on the ground, bloodied,' he said. 'Some looked pretty mangled, head injuries, just a lot of blood.'


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Crime scene: Police and fire officials respond at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles


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Injured: Police and fire officials assist an injured pedestrian at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk


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Trouble in paradise: Injured pedestrians are attended to after a car crashes into pedestrians on the Venice Beach Boardwalk


Another witness, 35-year-old Louisa Hodge, said victims could be seen wandering around in a daze, dripping with blood.

'There was people kind of stumbling around, blood dripping down their legs looking confused not knowing what had happened, people screaming,' said Hodge, who was out enjoying the day on the Venice Beach boardwalk with a friend visiting from San Diego.

'It was blocks and blocks of people just strewn across the sidewalk.'
Caught on a security camera outside the headquarters of mobile app company SnapChat, people can be seen diving out of the way of the dark blue sedan.
Another witness said that he heard a speeding car and screams before seeing the car speed by the restaurant he works in.

KCAL is also reporting that a four-year-old child is one of the injured, but that remains unconfirmed. An LAFD bulletin stated that the injured are 'all believed to have been pedestrians on the boardwalk.'


Victim's relative describes the scene of horror crash

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Only the beginning: Fire officials can be seen setting up the mats where they would treat the injured


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Relief at last: Firefighters and paramedics begin to treat those with minor injuries, the more seriously injured were taken to an area hospital

Police have not yet released a motive in the shocking act.
MailOnline was not able to reach authorities for further comment.

The site isn't far from the Santa Monica Farmer's Market where a 2003 crash left 10 dead and 63 hurt, after an 87-year-old man's car accidentally roared through the market.
According to the security video and witness accounts, the man with a baseball cap, gray shirt and white pants parked next to the Cadillac Hotel, twice walking out to the boardwalk before getting into the Dodge Avenger and accelerating, swerving around yellow poles meant to prevent cars from getting into the pedestrian-only area and onto the boardwalk.

'I heard a big "boom, boom," like the sound of someone going up and down the curb, it was super loud,' said Alex Hagan, 22, who was working the desk at the Cadillac Hotel and watched the scene unfold from the start.

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Right on the beach: The pedestrians were hit right near 1 Dudley Avenue, in Venice Beach, CA


The driver knocked over two mannequins then started hitting people, swerving from side to side and often running straight into them.

The crowd of hundreds of couples, families and children who had been sitting at cafes, shopping and walking lazily along in shorts and sandals were sent on a mad scramble to get themselves and others out of the way and to rush to help those who were hit.

The car hit at least three vendors who were sitting at their sales booths, video showed. It hit two women who appeared to be in their 60s, Hagan said. Many ran after the car, screaming and cursing as it sped away, he said.

Hodge said she and her friend, 31-year-old Ashley Taylor, had made note of the numbers walking along the seaside.

'It was a really nice day, there were tons of people out, in fact, we were talking about how packed it was, because we were having a hard time getting through all the people,' said Hodge.

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Cordoned off: Santa Monica police investigate a Dodge vehicle with collision damage on the front end in Santa Monica after the deadly crash


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Investigation: An unidentified passerby, left, looks at police investigators at the scene on the Venice Beach boardwalk in the aftermath of the attack


She and her friend stepped into a store to buy a couple of hats, a move that may have saved their lives, and stepped out to see the aftermath, as emergency crews arrived and started putting victims on tarps.
Hodge saw one man and woman lying next to each other, wearing head braces and barely able to move.

'They were just laying next to each other and grasping hands,' Hodge said, 'just a man and a woman holding hands.'
Hours later police were surveying the same stretch of ground for evidence. The Venice boardwalk is a cultural hub in a part of Los Angeles known for its circus-meets-gritty-city eccentricities.

The 1.5-mile ribbon of asphalt that runs along the sand a few hundred yards from the ocean is home to galleries, restaurants, tattoo shops, skateboard parks and the famous outdoor weight room known as Muscle Beach.
It can draw as many as 150,000 people on summer weekends.


VIDEOS

Watch the black car in the top of the video, the nutcase takes his time and plans the moment to start plowing the vehicle into innocent beachgoers, to cause as much injury as possible:



& The Aftermath: