Driver ‘Tried to Get the Whole Block’

Daniel Lee Young told police that he was trying to kill as many people as he could July 27 when he turned his car onto a crowded Westwood sidewalk and mowed down nearly 50 pedestrians, a prosecutor said. In his opening statement at Young’s trial in Santa Monica, Deputy Dist. Atty. John H. Reid made public extensive portions of the statement that Young made to police after his arrest. “ ‘When I hit the first person, I put it to the floor. . . . I was making sure I ran the whole block down. . . . I tried to get the whole block and if I could, I would have got another block,’ ” Reid quoted Young as saying in the defendant’s tape-recorded statement. Young, 21, of Inglewood is accused of one count of first-degree murder and 48 counts of attempted murder.