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Times Square crash victim was 18-year-old Michigan woman

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Police officers in protective clothes look over evidence at the scene of a fatal car crash, where a man steered his car onto a sidewalk and mowed down pedestrians, in Times Square, New York, Thursday, May 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NEW YORK – Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a car that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was a tourist from Portage, Michigan.

Alyssa Elsman died Thursday when a man drove his car down the sidewalk for three blocks into the heart of New York City’s theatre district.

Twenty-three people were struck by the car before it was stopped by a security barrier.

Police say Elsman’s 13-year-old sister was among the people who were struck but survived.

Police identify the driver of the car as Richard Rojas, a Navy veteran from the Bronx. They say he was captured at the scene and arrested. He’s in custody.

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