“He’s just really, really beside himself,” Johnson Jr.’s friend and fellow chorus member Bradley Bush told the Associated Press. He has been cooperative and there was no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved, police said. Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus member James Fahy was killed in the accident on June 19, 2021. Johnson had been driving the pickup because he has “ailments preventing him from walking the duration of the parade,” and he told cops later that his foot got jammed between the gas and brake pedals. “Please know that I hold my fellow Chorus member, Jim Fahy, in my heart forever and offer my condolences to his friends and family,” he said in his statement.įort Lauderdale police reaffirmed Monday that “all available information and evidence indicates this was a terrible accident.” Images Police patrol the area after a truck mowed into a Pride parade in Wilton Manors, Florida. Police officers and others assisting two people lying on the ground after being hit by a pickup truck during a Pride parade in Wilton Manors, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 19, 2021. “I love my Chorus family and the community and would never do anything to intentionally harm anyone,” Johnson Jr. Johnson, a local minister, had been behind the wheel of a white Dodge Ram pickup when he “accelerated unexpectedly,” killing James Fahy, 75, police said Monday.īoth men were members of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, as were two others also injured - Jerry Vroegh, 57, who was discharged from a hospital Monday, and Gary Keating, 52, who was treated at the scene for minor injuries, police said.
said in a statement Monday after being identified as the driver in Saturday’s deadly mayhem in Fort Lauderdale. “This was a horrible accident and I offer my sincere regrets to all those who were impacted by this tragic event,” Fred Johnson Jr. The 77-year-old driver who accidentally mowed down three fellow members of a Florida gay chorus group at a Pride parade has said he will hold the friend who died “in my heart forever.”
LI man threatened to ‘assault, shoot and bomb’ NYC Pride, LGBT orgs and individualsĭisney star: I had ‘dangerous’ gay conversion therapy before coming outĪmericans will be able to pick their passport gender Marine Corps sparks outrage with rainbow bullets to mark Pride month