Venice Beach Driving Rampage 9/20/2016 Update ---
1 killed, 16 injured, suspect convicted, not terrorism (?) August 3, 2013 Venice Beach Driving Rampage Los Angeles California. 38 yr old Nathan Campbell deliberately drove a car through a crowd at the Venice Beach boardwalk, injuring 16 and killing Italian newlywed Alice Gruppioni on her honeymoon. Police are searching for a motive since terrorism was quickly ruled out. Campbell was arrested two hours later after turning himself in. He was charged with murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of hit-and-run. He was a transient living in a late model Dodge Avenger who had served time for shoplifting in Colorado. The public defender called it "horrendous accident", not a "rampage", and Campbell pleaded not guilty, saying he was struggling to get the car shifted out of park when it went out of control and he gunned the gas, somehow slipped through the only gap in row of anti-car barriers. Video showed the car hit crowds, then accidentally back up and then make another pass at the throng. In September 2015 Campbell was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 42 years to life in state prison. Later on the tactic of running over people with cars would become recognized as terrorist attack method.
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August 3, 2013 Nathan Campbell drives a Dodge Avenger through the crowded Venice Beach boardwalk, injuring 11, killing 1
tags:
Vehicle Assault Attacks | 2003 Farmer's Market attack/accident Vehicle Drives Through Barrier, white suspect, Dodge Avenger, false mechanical problem, cover story, deliberate accident, lying, homeless / transient
*Sources
- Daily Mail: Venice Beach driver Nathan Louis Campbell who killed Italian ...Daily MailAug 6, 2013 - Nathan Louis Campbell the crazed driver who mowed down 11 people last week on Venice Beach and killed an Italian honeymooner was
- Heavy: Nathan Louis Campbell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Aug 5, 2013 - Nathan Louis Campbell has admitted to driving his car into a crowd in Venice Beach, killing one person, and injuring 11 others.
- Wikipedia - nothing
defense attorney Philip Dube told reporters his client “never intended to hurt anybody or to kill that young lady.” Campbell’s attorney contended that what happened was an accident and that Campbell “panicked” when he experienced a problem with the shift lever on the 2008 Dodge Avenger he had bought a few weeks earlier at a used-car dealership in Colorado. The lawyer said his client was struggling to get the Avenger out of parking gear when he gunned the sedan and it went forward. dailynews
Related 2011 shooting incident:
http://www.examiner.com/article/gunfire-terror-on-venice-beach
Gunfire, Terror on Venice Beach Boardwalk APRIL 19, 2011 BY: GARY LONDON
A pleasant day at the beach can include surf, sand...and gunfire.Long considered to be safe, the boardwalk at Venice Beach can now be added to the list of places in Southern California vulnerable to gang-related violence... A so-called flash mob event culminated in gunfire Saturday resulting in one serious injury. The social media twitter was used on Friday to advertise the gathering at Venice Beach. During the course of the event, for inexplicable reasons, shooting erupted, one person was wounded in the head and was reported in critical condition. At this time it is unclear as to the motive (is it real or is it terrorism?)
Related 2003 vehicle rampage: 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.
Also 2013 rampage in Tiananmen square, damascus days hiker parade, mother's day parade shootings
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Wikipedia: (deleted) On August 3, 2013, a Dodge Avenger went onto the Venice Beach boardwalk and hit pedestrians, killing one and injuring sixteen.[20][23][24] Witnesses said the car pulled away and fled. The suspect, 38-year-old Nathan Campbell, was arrested two hours later after turning himself in at a police station. He was charged with murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of hit-and-run.[23][24][25]
Topics
- Shoplifting Crash suspect served time for shoplifting in Colo., http://fxn.ws/1cE14jj -
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News:
Venice Boardwalk driver sentenced to 42 years to life in state prison ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-ln-venice-boardwalk-20150925-story.h...
Los Angeles TimesSep 25, 2015 - Nathan Louis Campbell, right, was sentenced to 42 years to life in prison. ... marrying her fiance and heading for their honeymoon in California.
Nathan Campbell Articles, Photos, and Videos - Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles TimesNews, Photos and Information about Nathan Campbell. ... the crowded Venice Beach boardwalk claims in a lawsuit that the city and county of Los Angeles failed ...
Jury convicts man of murder in Venice Boardwalk crash - LA Times
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-ln-venice-boardwalk-trial-20150605-st...
Los Angeles TimesJun 5, 2015 - A Los Angeles jury on Friday convicted a man of deliberately driving his car into pedestrians on the Venice boardwalk, killing an Italian newlywed and injuring 17 others. Nathan LouisCampbell was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Alice Gruppioni, an Italian ...
Nathan Campbell Sentenced in Venice Beach Car Crash : People.com
www.people.com/article/nathan-campbell-venice-beach-car-crash-sentenced
PeopleSep 26, 2015 - Nathan Campbell was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Alice Gruppioni in June.
Jurors Find Driver Guilty of 2nd-Degree Murder in Fatal Venice ... - KTLA
ktla.com/.../jurors-find-driver-guilty-of-second-degree-murder-in-fatal-venice-...
KTLAJun 5, 2015 - Jurors Find Driver Guilty of 2nd-Degree Murder in Fatal Venice ... Nathan LouisCampbell was charged with murder in the death of .... Long Beach Man Convicted in 2014 Craigslist Killing, Carjacking of CSUN Student.
January 22, 2014 Nathan Louis Campbell the Venice Beach Boardwalk Rampage driver pleaded not guilty to murder, saying he had a problem with the shift level as he struggled to get it out of park.
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140122/driver-in-venice-boardwalk-car-rampage-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-charges
defense attorney Philip Dube told reporters his client “never intended to hurt anybody or to kill that young lady.”
Campbell’s attorney contended that what happened was an accident and that Campbell “panicked” when he experienced a problem with the shift lever on the 2008 Dodge Avenger he had bought a few weeks earlier at a used-car dealership in Colorado. The lawyer said his client was struggling to get the Avenger out of parking gear when he gunned the sedan and it went forward.
11/4/2013
By Dana Feldman
LOS ANGELES | Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:24pm EDT
(Reuters) - A man accused of murder for plowing his car into crowds at a California beach boardwalk this summer, killing an Italian newlywed on her honeymoon, did not intend to harm anyone in what amounted to a "horrendous accident," his public defender said on Tuesday.... pleaded not guilty to murder, assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of felony hit-and-run stemming from the August incident at the Venice Beach boardwalk in which 16 people were also injured. "This had nothing to do with him committing an intentional act," public defender Philip Dube told Reuters after a court hearing in Los Angeles on Tuesday, saying he believed the car may have had mechanical problems....."The question is whether or not this was his fault."
| ABC News | - |
A transient from Colorado has been charged with murder and assault for allegedly driving his Dodge Avenger down Los Angeles' Venice Beach boardwalk, killing an Italian tourist and injuring 16 others.
CBSNews (Hidden Byline) — LOS ANGELESLos Angeles police have arrested a man on suspicion of intentionally driving into crowds at the Venice Beach boa... Read Article
turned himself about two hours after the attack that occurred at around 6 p.m. Saturday. Investigators don't yet have a motive.
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Scenes from the Venice boardwak car rampage
Witnesses reported a horrendous scene of people scattered and bloody in the popular tourist area. )A coroner's investigator tells City News Service that the dead woman is 32-year-old Alice Gruppioni of Italy.
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
| USA TODAY | - |
SHARE 751 CONNECT 156 TWEET 47 COMMENTEMAILMORE. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A rapidly accelerating car driven by a young man screeched across a sidewalk and straight into a crowd enjoying one of Southern California's most popular boardwalks, ...
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.
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.
- Witnesses: Driver appeared to be "moving purposefully" and in control of the car as it plowed through crowd
Google search results:
"A driver plowed into pedestrians on Venice's famed boardwalk Saturday evening, striking at least a dozen people and killing one, authorities said."
1/24/2014
http://ninjapundit.blogspot.com/2013/08/venice-beach-terrorist-vehicle-attack.html
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