Brownsville Texas crash – latest: SUV driver suspected of killing seven outside migrant shelter remains ‘uncooperative’

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An SUV plowed into a crowd of people waiting for a bus on Sunday outside a migrant shelter in the border town of Brownsville, Texas, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 10, the police said as they prepared to arrest the hospitalized driver.

Because there was no bench at the unmarked bus stop in the city, some of the victims were sitting on the curb around 8:30 in the morning when the driver hit them, surveillance video from the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center showed. Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said police do not know if the collision was intentional.

Shelter director Victor Maldonado said the SUV ran into the curb, overturned and continued to run for about 200ft. Other people walking on the sidewalk about 30ft from the main group were also hit, Mr Maldonado said. Witnesses detained the driver as he tried to run and held him until police arrived, he said.

“This SUV, a Range Rover, just flashed its lights about 100ft away and just passed the people who were sitting there at the bus stop,” said Mr Maldonado, who reviewed the surveillance video at shelter.

The victims who were hit by the car were waiting for the bus to return to downtown Brownsville after spending the night at the overnight shelter, said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.

The accident involving the Range Rover happened outside Ozanam Center in the city said the police.

“7 individuals were pronounced dead at the scene and 11 were transported to local hospitals. 1 person was airlifted to Valley Baptist Harlingen. The area is still closed to traffic,” the Brownsville Fire Department said in Facebook.

Several migrants were killed in the incident, Lt Sandoval told Fox News.

“We are conducting an investigation into forms of intoxication to determine if he was intoxicated at the time of the accident,” Lt Sandoval said.