Car drives through Venice Beach crowd: 1 dead, 11 hurt

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Los Angeles police arrested a man on suspicion of intentionally driving into crowds on the Venice Beach boardwalk, where one person was killed and 11 were injured. Nathan Campbell, 38, has been booked for investigation of murder and is jailed on $1 million bail. A coroner’s investigator told City News Service that the victim killed was 32-year-old Alice Gruppioni of Italy.


Pictured: Police and fire officials responded at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles on Aug. 3.



Police and fire officials respond at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Alex Thompson/Venice311.org)


Los Angeles police arrested a man on suspicion of intentionally driving into crowds on the Venice Beach boardwalk, where one person was killed and 11 were injured. Nathan Campbell, 38, has been booked for investigation of murder and is jailed on $1 million bail. A coroner’s investigator told City News Service that the victim killed was 32-year-old Alice Gruppioni of Italy.


Pictured: Police and fire officials responded at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles on Aug. 3.


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This image from security camera footage shows the vehicle just before the incident.


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Two pedestrians moved out of the way of the vehicle.


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Pedestrians gather as police and fire officials respond after a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Maarten Smitskamp)

Pedestrians gathered as police and fire officials responded at the Venice Beach boardwalk.


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Police and fire officials assist an injured pedestrian at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Venice311.org, Alex Thompson)

Police and fire officials assisted an injured pedestrian at the scene.


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Police stand watch in the taped off crime scene and examine the left over remnants from vendors on the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles Saturday Aug. 3, 2013. A driver plowed into a crowd walking along one of the most popular beach boardwalks in Southern California Saturday evening, killing at least one person, injuring 11 others and leaving behind a chaotic scene strewn with bleeding victims, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

Police stood watch in the taped off crime scene and examined the remnants from vendors on the Venice Beach boardwalk after a driver plowed into a crowd and left behind a chaotic scene strewn with bleeding victims, officials and witnesses said.


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An unidentified passerby, left, looks at police investigators at the scene on the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles late Saturday Aug. 3, 2013. A driver plowed into a crowd walking along one of the most popular beach boardwalks in Southern California Saturday evening, killing one person, injuring 11 others and leaving behind a chaotic scene strewn with bleeding victims, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

An unidentified passerby looked at police investigators at the scene.


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