The driver was detained by several witnesses to what happened and held until the police arrived. The injured are still being counted, informed the director of the shelter Víctor Maldonado
A driver rammed a group this Sunday, May 7, outside an immigrant shelter in a border city in Texas, United States, and so far there are seven dead and several injured. Most of the victims are of Venezuelan nationality, affirmed the director of the refuge, Víctor Maldonado.
Víctor Maldonado, director of the Obispo Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center reported, in statements collected by local media, that most of the victims were Venezuelan men, reported the agency EFE.
Maldonado 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. The person responsible has been arrested.
“What we see on 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.
The media indicates that the Centro Obispo Enrique San Pedro Ozanam shelter is the only one that operates at night in the city of Brownsville and manages the release of thousands of migrants from federal custody.
As previously reported by the Brownsville police to ABC News, a man was arrested for what happened. The police have not yet confirmed the reasons for the hit-and-run, but as Lieutenant Martín Sandoval explained to the local channel KRGV, they are investigating whether it could have been intentional.
The driver was detained by several witnesses to what happened and held until the police arrived. The injured are still being counted, Sandoval said, since some of them were transferred in ambulances.
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The lieutenant explained that the center is a shelter for the homeless but that at this time, due to the immigration crisis that the border is experiencing, it is full of immigrants.
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 Border Patrol agents.
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