2023-05-07 23:48:09
At least seven people died and six were injured this Sunday after a man ran over a group of people at a bus stop in Brownsville (Texas), in front of a shelter for the homeless, which also serves as a center for immigrants.
As reported by the police in Brownsville (a city on the border with the United States) to >, a man was arrested for what happened. The reasons for the accident have not yet been confirmed, but as Lieutenant Martín Sandoval explained to the local press, It is believed that it could have been intentional.
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The man was driving a Land Rover
At around 8:30 a.m. local time, police received a report that a Land Rover had run over several people. waiting at a bus stop in front of a migrant shelter.
Upon arrival they found that there were seven people dead at the scene and six more were taken to the hospital with minor or serious injuries.
The driver was detained by several witnesses to what happened and held until the police arrived. You are receiving medical attention.
Lieutenant Martín Sandoval, spokesman for the Brownsville police, identified the perpetrator of the hit-and-run as a Hispanic man at a press conference, whom he said is not cooperating with the authorities and is still trying to identify himself.
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A lady passed by in a car and tells us to get out of the way and we get out of the way. It was in a matter of moments
The official added that the authorities they obtained a blood sample from the driver and that a toxicology test was ordered.
The person in charge of the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, Víctor Maldonado, pointed out that the victims were Venezuelan men and that at the time of the event between 20 and 25 migrants were sitting on the sidewalk waiting for a bus across the street from the shelter.
Maldonado indicated that the migrants came from Venezuela and had arrived at the shelter two or three days ago. He said he reviewed surveillance video from the shelter after receiving a call informing him of the accident and that people waiting there were sitting on the sidewalk at the time of the hit-and-run.
“What we see in the video is that a Range Rover went through the light that was about a hundred feet away (30 meters) and hit people who were sitting at the bus stop,” Maldonado said.
Sandoval specified that the authorities are still investigating whether the accident was intentional or accidental. and that the witnesses said they saw the driver ignore the red light before running over the group of people who were waiting at the bus stop.
“It was suddenly. A lady passed by in a car and told us to move away and move away. It was in a matter of moments. The murderer (sic) came in the car pointing at us, insulting us, saying things like ‘motherfucker’, I don’t know, I don’t understand things like that,” Luis Herrera, a 36-year-old Venezuelan who was there and was injured in the arm, told AFP.
“He gave all the volume (speed) to the car and it just passed me by one side,” he said, pointing to his arm.
The media indicate that the shelter in front of which the events occurred is the Obispo Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, the only one that operates at night in the city of Brownsville and manages the release of thousands of migrants from federal custody.
The event occurs when there are only a few days left until the end, on May 11, of Title 42 immigration regulations, a measure adopted by former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and later continued by Democratic president Joe Biden to expel migrants with the argument of the covid-19 pandemic.
To prepare for the possible problems generated by the end of this regulation, due to the possible increase in the migratory flow, 1,500 US soldiers will be deployed at the border to support the Border Patrol agents.
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*With information from AFP and EFE
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