{"id":103131,"date":"2017-05-19T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103131"},"modified":"2017-05-19T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T04:40:18","slug":"times-square-crash-victim-was-18-year-old-michigan-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/19\/times-square-crash-victim-was-18-year-old-michigan-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square crash victim was 18 year old Michigan woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103132\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Times-square.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103132\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Times-square.jpg\" alt=\"Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a car that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was a tourist from Portage, Michigan. (Photo: Samuel Ioannidis\/Flickr)\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Times-square.jpg 528w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Times-square-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a car that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was a tourist from Portage, Michigan. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/154742265@N04\/34501425202\/in\/photolist-UyLRNd-UyLPGE-UBxTgR-baTXfX-83kzTi-nubvep-deMM1C-bfxmie-cuTbCq-niGei1-pnvtUA-UyLQCh-UBxSfT-9ZtR5c-7ZC8Zp-nQ5p6b-pzq2cQ-7SinmX-dEDz8e-eEddeh-7gVfSp-7jezJs-8o2aQe-bp1Dk2-bos1RP-QQMxas-9Vp7bV-AofjZT-oiJ5aM-niGcnr-RJHrAd-okubpz-fPYUck-54nkBo-SU2Neb-ij3ix-qLUzYM-7s6Abe-oipEyv-82P6Uu-53NxED-nAc2PS-bso9Z-4EUb8N-ntL5mH-S76AZo-pgbSM-82P6QG-899U-fgGW3K\">Samuel Ioannidis\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a car that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was a tourist from Portage, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Elsman died Thursday when a man drove his car down the sidewalk for three blocks into the heart of New York City&#8217;s theatre district.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three people were struck by the car before it was stopped by a security barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Elsman&#8217;s 13-year-old sister was among the people who were struck but survived.<\/p>\n<p>Police identify the driver of the car as Richard Rojas, a Navy veteran from the Bronx. They say he was captured at the scene and arrested. He&#8217;s in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a car that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[19275],"class_list":["post-103131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-times-square-crash","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}