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Man found not responsible for Times Square vehicle rampage

Enrico DeMarco, a defense attorney for Richard Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, is seen talking to a member of the press outside New York Country Criminal Court on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) FILE - Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, N.Y., appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his arraignment, July 13, 2017, in New York. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday, June 22, 2022, because of mental illness. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File) Richard Rojas, right, appears in court, with his attorney Enrico DeMarco, as he waits for the verdict in his trial, in New York, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility because of mental illness. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail/Pool Photo via AP) Enrico DeMarco, a defense attorney for Richard Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, is seen talking to a member of the press outside New York Country Criminal Court on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) FILE - Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, N.Y., appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his arraignment, July 13, 2017, in New York. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday, June 22, 2022, because of mental illness. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File) Richard Rojas, right, appears in court, with his attorney Enrico DeMarco, as he waits for the verdict in his trial, in New York, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility because of mental illness. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail/Pool Photo via AP) Enrico DeMarco, a defense attorney for Richard Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, is seen talking to a member of the press outside New York Country Criminal Court on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) FILE - Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, N.Y., appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his arraignment, July 13, 2017, in New York. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday, June 22, 2022, because of mental illness. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File) Enrico DeMarco, a defense attorney for Richard Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, is seen talking to a member of the press outside New York Country Criminal Court on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) FILE - Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, N.Y., appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his arraignment, July 13, 2017, in New York. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday, June 22, 2022, because of mental illness. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File) FILE - Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, N.Y., appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his arraignment, July 13, 2017, in New York. Rojas, who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility Wednesday, June 22, 2022, because of mental illness. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File) FILE- A smashed car sits on the corner of Broadway and 45th Street in New York's Times Square, May 18, 2017, after the car was driven into a crowd of pedestrians. The driver, Richard Rojas, 31, is fighting murder, assault and other charges at a trial unfolding in the shadow of mass shootings across the country and the political debate in which gun-control opponents have sought to blame the violence on failures in mental health care. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - Richard Rojas, right, appears in court for the start of his trial in New York on May 9, 2022. A prosecutor has told jurors in closing arguments Wednesday, June 15, 2022, that Rojas, accused of using his car to mow down people in Times Square, made a deliberate choice to leave a path of death and destruction in the spring of 2017. An attorney for Rojas countered by calling his client a “lunatic” who was so mentally ill, he didn’t know what he was doing that day. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Man found not responsible for Times Square vehicle rampage