Hundreds show support for victims of Edmonton attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAbout four hours after the attack on Chernyk, a U-Haul truck struck pedestrians along Jasper Avenue at 107th Street before the van flipped and the driver arrested on 100th Avenue at 106th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Four pedestrians suffered\u00a0injuries ranging from “broken arms to brain bleeds,” police Chief Rod Knecht said during Sunday’s police news conference.<\/p>\n
Two pedestrians\u00a0have been released from hospital. Two remain in hospital, one in serious condition, Talbot confirmed Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sharif\u00a0was investigated in 2015,\u00a0for allegedly espousing extremism, but investigators said there was insufficient evidence for an arrest and it was found he was not a national security\u00a0threat.<\/p>\n
‘Not as safe as we thought’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Jaylene Ellard was on her way to a friend’s birthday party Saturday night when she saw the cube van peel down the street with a fleet of police cars following.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It was pandemonium in downtown Edmonton that night. She has\u00a0had trouble sleeping ever since.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“It was just chaos,”\u00a0Ellard said on Monday. “I\u00a0was like I disassociated from it a little bit. I saw what was happening but I was almost on the outside.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“You’re just trying to piece everything together in the moment.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ellard fears the attack will incite racist backlash in the city. Her sentiments were echoed by fellow witness Cody Cooper, who watched pedestrians thrown into the air by the speeding cube van.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Allowing the event to fuel more hatred and discrimination will only make a horrible situation even more tragic, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I hope people don’t act on it,” said\u00a0“It’s a terrible thing but just to add chaos to chaos is not going to help the situation.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cooper is calling for community solidarity after the attacks, which have left him feeling unsafe in his home city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I did not see it coming. I mean, we’ve all thought about with terrorists attack happening everywhere, but I never thought they would hit Edmonton,” said Cooper.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I guess we have to be a little bit more careful now\u00a0\u2014 watch what we’re doing, where we’re going \u2014\u00a0Edmonton is not as safe as we thought.”<\/p>\n
Sharif\u00a0is scheduled to appear in court in Edmonton at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
As the case is now before the courts, RCMP said Monday’s availability would be the last formal news conference on the case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n
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The man accused of stabbing an Edmonton police constable on the weekend and running down four pedestrians on Jasper Avenue has not been charged with terrorism-related offences. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30, has been charged with five counts of attempted murder, five counts of criminal flight causing bodily harm,\u00a0dangerous driving and possession of a weapon for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-93774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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