You think he minds much they were Hindu?

Veteran Rams Hindu Family, thinking they were Muslims

Perhaps he's more disappointed nobody died.

It appears he was willing to hit several people other than his targets in order to hit his targets.

Collateral damage.

An Iraq War veteran, who had spent 5 years in that country, was arraigned Friday.

On Tuesday, he had plowed into 8 people in an intersection in Sunnyvale, California, particularly aiming at a South Asian family who he assumed to be Muslims. 

They weren’t. 

The names indicate that they are Americans of Indian Hindu heritage (a minority in the US of about 1 million people). 

The veteran has been charged with a hate crime and with 8 counts of attempted murder.

Witnesses say that after his crime he acted strangely, saying “Thank God for giving me this opportunity!” and “I love you, Jesus, I love you, Jesus.”

The victims included a 13-year-old girl, Dhriti and her father; her young brother Prakhar, 9, was hurt, but not by the car. 

Dhriti experienced swelling of the brain and bleeding, so that physicians had to take off the side of her skull, and she is fighting for her life in critical condition. 

Others hurt by the car ramming were Marina Reimler, 32; Soeren Reimler, 33; Ping Lu, 51; Rajesh Narayan, 45; Eric Nava, 24; and Miguel, 15.

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The enraged vet managed to wound Americans of German, Indian, Chinese and Latino heritage in his fruitless search for other Americans to kill, of Muslim heritage.