Driver accused of killing three women at North Hollywood metro station arrested for DUI

The man accused of running over several pedestrians at a metro station in North Hollywood, killing three women, has been arrested.Police announced 61‐year‐old Ihor Demianenko, who allegedly plowed into a crowd at the station Tuesday night, had been detained for felony DUI.Demianenko was driving a white SUV southbound on North Lankershim just before 6 p.m.when he hit several street vendors, killing three people and injuring two.

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He was in shock but conscious at the scene.Demianenko is being held at the LAPD Valley Jail in Van Nuys on $6.03 million bail, according to jail records.The victims were aged 40, 53, and 69 years old, according to ABC7.At least two of them were food vendors.

Two of those injured remain hospitalized, the outlet reported.LAPD chief Jim McDonnell arrived at the scene and said police were reviewing video of the incident.“Investigators have the video.They’ll run it down and slow-motion it and take it frame-by-frame to determine what happened,” McDonnell said.Video of the scene showed a wide debris field and a stunning scene right outside the metro station.The SUV also mangled the tents outside of the station, and a wide emergency response could be seen managing the situation.A witness at the scene said they came inches from death.“I felt the wind of the whoosh, of the wind, on my left shoulder,” Gian Barbarona told ABC 7.“I initially thought that the car went into the station.

That’s how bad it was visually,” Barbarona added.A friend of one of the victims, Noe Orozco, said he found one of his colleagues dead on the sidewalk.He had just come to pick them up, as he had done most days.Mayor Karen Bass said she was �...