Seven dead in Texas after car drives into crowd outside migrant center

Posted by on May 7, 2023 2:03 pm
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Police say crash might have been intentional, and driver was arrested for reckless driving and could face other charges

Seven people have been killed and at least six others have been injured after a car plowed into a crowd outside a shelter serving migrants and homeless people in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday, and investigators believe it may have been intentional, according to authorities.

The car careened into the crowd of people who were sitting on the curb at a bus stop near the Oznam Center at about 8.30am, the police department in Brownsville, which is near Texas’s border with Mexico, reported. That came four days before the scheduled expiration of Title 42, the Covid-19 era policy that allows border patrol agents to swiftly expel migrants at the US’s southern border.

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