Seven killed after car hits people waiting at bus stop in Texas
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Seven people have been killed and at least six are injured after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a city bus stop, police in Brownsville, Texas, said Sunday.
Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened about 8:30am local time on Sunday at a bus stop near the Ozanam Center, shelter for migrants and the homeless.
Mr Sandoval told Fox News that some migrants were among the dead.
“We are doing an investigation in forms of intoxication to see if he was intoxicated at the time of the accident,” said
Mr Sandoval.
Victor Maldonado, director of the Ozanam Center, said he reviewed the shelter’s surveillance video on Sunday morning after receiving a call about the crash.
The city bus stop is across the street from the shelter and is not marked. There was no bench, and people waiting there were sitting along the curb, Mr Maldonado said. He said most of the victims were Venezuelan men.
“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,” Mr Maldonado said.
The Ozanam shelter is the only overnight shelter in the city of Brownsville and manages the release of thousands of migrants from federal custody.
“In the last two months, we’ve been getting 250 to 380 a day,” Mr Maldonado said.
The shelter can hold 250, but many who arrive leave the same day. In the last several weeks, an uptick in border crossings prompted the city to declare an emergency as local, state and federal resources coordinated the enforcement and humanitarian response.
While the shelter offers migrants transportation during the week, they are also free to use the city’s public transportation.
“Some of them were on the way to the bus station, because they were on their way to their destination,” the director said.
A male suspect has been charged with reckless driving, although more charges are expected to follow. He is under 24-hour guard and is receiving medical treatment at a local hospital.
