COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa. — The man accused of plowing his car through a crowd of people at a fundraiser in Columbia County has been sentenced for his crimes.
Adrian Sura Reyes was given two life sentences plus 123 1/2 to 380 years in state prison.
Sura Reyes pleaded guilty in May to two counts of criminal homicide and 19 counts of criminal attempted homicide.
The man from Nescopeck was accused of driving his car into a crowd in Berwick on August 13, 2022, and then killing his mother with a hammer.
The deadly series of events began with a house fire in the early morning of August 5, 2022, on First Street in Nescopeck that killed three children and seven adults.
In a show of community support, the Intoxicology Department, a restaurant in Berwick, held a fundraiser on August 13 for the surviving family members of the fire. The business closed its parking lot for vendors and games.
At 6:15 p.m., police received a call that someone drove through the crowd at the fundraiser, killing Rebecca Reese, 50, of Wilkes-Barre, and injuring 19 others.
Reyes pleaded guilty to intentionally driving through the crowd and then going to the home of his mother, 56-year-old Rosa Reyes, in Nescopeck, where he brutally beat her to death in the yard with a hammer.
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