One woman was killed and 17 others were injured when a man drove a car into a crowd of people attending an event in Berwick, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, state police said. The suspect fled and later attacked and killed his mother with a hammer, authorities allege. The suspect, 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, was arrested and arraigned Sunday by Magisterial District Judge Doug Brewer on two open counts of murder, state police said. At approximately 6:12 p.m. on Saturday, a Honda Accord plowed into a group of people in the parking lot of the Department of Toxicology, a bar in Berwick, according to a criminal complaint obtained by CBS News. At the time of the crash, the bar was hosting a day-long fundraiser for the families of the 10 people — including three children — killed in a house fire last week in the neighboring town of Nescopeck. There were approximately 75 people in the parking lot when the accident occurred. One woman was killed and 17 others were injured. The complaint identified the woman killed as Rebecca Reese, who police said was dragged from the car after being struck. Of the 17 people treated, at least five remained in critical condition Sunday, according to Geisinger Medical Center, a hospital in nearby Danville. According to the complaint, after crashing into the crowd, Reyes sped away and returned to his home in Nescopeck, where minutes later, he struck his mother, Rosa Reyes, with the car and also crashed into a neighbor’s parked vehicle. He then attacked his mother with a hammer, the complaint states. He died on the spot. State troopers and local police responded and arrested Reyes. According to the complaint, Reyes told detectives he had gotten into a fight with his mother at his home in Nescopeck. He left home, drove to Berwick, where he saw the crowd and deliberately fell upon them. He told detectives he then returned home, saw his mother standing in the driveway and ran into her. He then confessed to taking a hammer from the Honda and attacking her with it, the complaint states. Reyes, meanwhile, is not a suspect in the investigation into the recent fatal Nescopeck house fire, a state police spokesman told CBS News. “Today was an absolute tragedy,” the Department of Toxicology said in a Facebook post shared Saturday night. “We will remain closed until further notice. Please respect our privacy while we grieve and try to process the events that occurred. Thank you.”
Reyes is currently being held at the Columbia County Correctional Facility and has been denied bail.
Berwick is located approximately 115 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Faris Tanyos contributed to this report.