Driver Convicted of Murder After His Truck Plowed Into July 4 Barbecue in NYC, Killing 4

Driver Convicted of Murder After His Truck Plowed Into July 4 Barbecue in NYC, Killing 4
New York City authorities work a crime scene of a deadly crash Friday, July 5, 2024, in the Lower East Side neighborhood in New York. AP Photo/John Minchillo, file
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NEW YORK—A driver who crashed his pickup truck into a July Fourth barbecue and killed four people was convicted Monday of murder in the 2024 wreck in a New York City park.

A Manhattan judge delivered the verdict in Daniel Hyden’s trial, where victims’ relatives, survivors and witnesses described how a holiday gathering of friends and relatives suddenly became a horrific scene when the truck jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence and barreled into the group.