A driver in West Palm Beach was arrested Monday for allegedly trying to strike members of a local LGBTQIA+ running club in an incident being reviewed as a possible hate crime.

West Palm Beach police said they first responded to a park along the 1300 block of Parker Avenue around 8:20 p.m. Monday to find runners who reported that a man behind the wheel of a Ford Bronco SUV had tried to hit several members with his car.

Witnesses said the suspect, later identified as 43-year-old Ihab Mustafa El Mahmoud, then "accelerated toward the runners, making a second attempt to strike them" and "drove recklessly along sidewalks, through grass, and up an embankment before fleeing eastbound onto Okeechobee Boulevard." West Palm Beach Police Department

Police later saw the suspect allegedly pulling in

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