“I love my Chorus family and the community and would never do anything to intentionally harm anyone,' Johnson said in a statement.
A third man, Gary Keating, was treated at the scene for minor injuries, according to a statement from Fort Lauderdale police.įahy and Vroegh planned to carry a banner in front of the chorus truck while other members walked behind the truck to hand out fliers. He suddenly accelerated forward, killing James Fahy, 75, and injuring Jerry Vroegh, 57, who was released from the hospital Monday. The 77-year-old driver who accidentally slammed his truck into fellow members of a gay chorus group, killing one and injuring two others at a Pride parade, said Monday he would hold the deceased “in my heart forever.”įred Johnson, a local minister and member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, a tight knit ensemble of about 25 mostly older men, was at the wheel of a pickup when his group was signaled as next to join the parade. Wilton Manors police tweeted Saturday night that the parade was canceled due to a “tragic event.” (Chris Day/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)įORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A driver has slammed into spectators at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, injuring at least two people.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is comforted after a truck drove into a crowd of people during The Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors, Fla., Saturday, June 19, 2021.
