President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the fatal New York City truck mowing marked "another attack by a very sick and deranged person" and vowed "not in the USA."
Here is the president's post:
He later posted these tweets:
Other posts came from first lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence:
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack, which killed eight people and injured at least a dozen others, "an act of terror — and a particularly cowardly act of terror."
New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said that a 29-year-old man was arrested after being shot in the abdomen by a uniformed officer in the 3:05 p.m. attack.
Six people died at the scene, on the west side of Manhattan near the World Trade Center, and two others died at a local hospital.
"This incident is over," O'Neill said.
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