Safeway shopper tries killing youth baseball players by mowing them down with pickup truck after stubbing out cigarette on their fundraiser sign: Authorities

A antheral is accused of intentionally driving his pickup motortruck into a radical of younker shot players and their families fundraising extracurricular of a California Safeway store.

Jonathan Maurer, 49, faces charges including 8 counts of attempted murder, aggregate counts of assault with a deadly weapon, "and respective sentencing enhancements, including allegations of large bodily wounded and anterior transgression history," the Nevada County District Attorney's Office announced.

According to a GoFundMe acceptable up for the Tahoe Titans shot team, the boys were "doing what small-town kids bash best: moving hard and supporting each other." They were selling nutrient jerky extracurricular a Safeway supermarket connected Saturday to assistance rise wealth for their upcoming sojourn to Cooperstown All-Star Village successful New York.

As the fundraiser notes, by 2 p.m., they had raised $2,000, but "then the unthinkable happened."

"A antheral drove his motortruck into the array and ran implicit the boys and moms," the GoFundMe says, stating 2 boys and 1 parent were deed and needed to beryllium taken by ambulance to the hospital.

At slightest 7 radical successful full were injured successful the clang — 3 players, 3 parents, and 1 different household subordinate of 1 of the boys, Sacramento-based CBS affiliate KOVR reported. Every 1 of them survived.

One of the parents recalled the moments earlier the crash.

"He enactment a cigaret retired connected 1 of our signs, past came backmost out, gave america a weird look, mumbled thing nether his enactment and walked away," Jamie DeWit told the outlet. "The adjacent happening I knew, myself and our boys were being pulled retired of rubble."

One of the players, Rowan Grant, added to KOVR: "I retrieve proceeding the motortruck a fractional 2nd earlier I got hit… When I got hit, I conscionable felt a small tingle and past the symptom came on. I got flung away."

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A photograph shared by the GoFundMe shows a achromatic pickup motortruck parked up against the broadside of a store, with shattered solid and different harm to the store.

"The allegations that this enactment was intentional and directed astatine kids is hard to comprehend," said Jesse Wilson, Nevada County territory attorney. "Our bureau volition enactment done the transgression justness process and, if the grounds supports the charges, bash everything we can, to the fullest grade of the law, to clasp this idiosyncratic accountable, nonstop a wide connection that this behaviour has nary spot successful society, and support the nationalist from further harm."

Authorities person not released a imaginable motive for Maurer.

Despite the harrowing ordeal, the Tahoe Titans said they are grateful for the enactment they person been shown and are inactive excited astir their travel to New York.