Seven people were killed and at least 10 were injured after an SUV slammed into a crowd at a bus stop near a migrant shelter in Texas.
∙ Brindis said bystanders helped stop the driver, who was being tested for drugs and alcohol.Shelter director Victor Maldonado reviewed the shelter’s surveillance video and said people, mostly Venezuelan men, were sitting on the curb waiting for the bus.
"What we see in the video is that this SUV, a Range Rover, just ran the light that was about a hundred feet away and just went through the people who were sitting there in the bus stop," Maldonado said. He said the SUV flipped after running up on the curb and continued moving for about 200 feet, also hitting people on the sidewalk about 30 feet away from the main group.
Luis Herrera told Valley Central he and his friends were waiting to go to the airport when they were struck by the SUV, driven by a man who gestured at and insulted them.Brownsville, the easternmost border crossing into Mexico, issued a disaster declaration last month after 15,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, crossed over in a single week, overwhelming border security. In a normal week about 2,000 migrants attempt to cross at Brownsville, officials say.
At a special meeting Thursday, Brownsville commissioners indefinitely extended the emergency declaration. "We don’t want them wandering around outside," Pedro Cardenas, a city commissioner, said of the migrants Sunday after the crash."So we’re trying to make sure they’re as comfortable as they can be so they don’t have to go out and look for anywhere else."
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