LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) – A driver has been found guilty in a Fourth of July crash that killed four people, including a mother and son, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced.

A self-described wellness advocate and substance abuse counselor who drunkenly crashed his pickup truck into a Fourth of July barbecue on the Lower East Side last year, killing four people, was convicted of murder Monday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced that past Thursday that Gerald Barth has pleaded guilty to felony charges for his role in a string of violent assaults across the East Village — including the January 2023 attack on Ray Alvarez, the then 90-year-old owner of Ray’s Candy Store on Avenue A.

The pickup driver who was drunk when he plowed into a Lower East Side park crowded with people celebrating the Fourth of July last year, killing four of them, was found guilty Monday of all charges against him.