WINDSOR, Ont. — An eyewitness to the attack that killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., has testified that she saw the body of one of the victims fly into the air after being hit by a speeding black pickup truck.
Nathaniel Veltman, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of deliberately hitting five members of the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk. Prosecutors have alleged his actions amount to an act of terrorism.
She says she looked on as a police vehicle arrived and an officer began trying to resuscitate someone who had just been hit. "I was just standing there for about an hour, just like in shock at what I saw and couldn't really believe it." Salman Afzaal, 46, his 44-year-old wife Madiha Salman, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna and her 74-year-old grandmother, Talat Afzaal, were killed in the London attack. The couple's nine-year-old son was also seriously hurt but survived.
Veltman accelerated as he approached the family, and data from his truck show he steered to the right, aiming to hit the family, just five seconds before striking them, the statement said.
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