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On March 1, 1994, a Muslim terrorist in a car opened fire on a van carrying over a dozen young Lubavitcher Chasidim as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. The terrorist, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a "street sweeper" shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge. He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van to critically wound two young men and injure two others. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge. The yeshivah students were among dozens returning from a Manhattan hospital where the spiritual leader of the Lubavitcher denomination, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, had undergone minor surgery. One of the two boys, Nachum Sasonkin, endured months, then years, of intensive therapy to return to as normal a life as possible, ultimately learning how to walk and talk again and eventually marrying.

Ari Halberstam died five days later, having been shot in the head. He was 16 years old.