Seven killed outside Brownsville migrant shelter after car crashes into pedestrians

[RandySF]

Seven people are dead after a car ran into pedestrians waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, authorities say.

The crash happened on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. across the street from the Ozanam Center, a shelter housing migrants, Brownsville Police Department Lt. Martin Sandoval told KRGV.

Pedestrians at the scene were taken to a local hospital to treat minor to serious injuries. Reports on the number of those injured have varied widely.

Police have detained the driver, who is facing at least one charge of reckless driving and also is being treated for injuries. It is unclear what led to the crash. Local police are investigating if the crash was intentional or accidental, and are performing tests on the driver to check for drug and alcohol use. Authorities have not identified the driver.

This is a developing story and will continue to be updated.



https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/07/brownsville-pedestrian-deaths/

[Mopar151]

1. Driver has money, and a lawyer. n/t

[Cerridwen]

12. Something you know or are you making a WAG

(WAG-wild assed guess) because of charges and investigation and such?

Just curious. Feel free to ignore. Thanks.

[Mopar151]

13. Purely a guess, but an educated one.

Range Rovers are pretty $pendy! And the cops are being deferential to the driver.

[Calculating]

2. This is why gun control isn't the solution

We clearly have a problem with an excess of murderous, crazy people in our society. Maybe we should try figuring out why so many Americans want to go on a rampage lately.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Seven people? What did the driver do here, speed up before impact?

[W_HAMILTON]

4. "This is why gun control isn't the solution," says only nation where this regularly happens.

To paraphrase the infamous Onion headline.

And if "we clearly have a problem with an excess of murderous, crazy people in our society," ALL THE MORE FUCKING REASON FOR GUN CONTROL.

[Calculating]

5. They'll just use cars then

It's been proven that running a truck through a crowd at 80mph is going to cause mass casualties. How do we stop the crazy people? Before this mass rampage shit you just had normal serial killers.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. So now we are back to the original Onion headline:

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

Yours is a rightwing talking point that a Democrat on a Democratic website should know better than to use.

[bronxiteforever]

9. +1

[EnergizedLib]

11. The difference is

Things that can be used as weapons weren’t specifically designed for that purpose. Guns were.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. That's a logical fallacy or two. nt

[Dirty Socialist]

10. 199 mass shootings this year

How many mass runovers this year?

[Runningdawg]

8. Gun laws only work when enforced. Cops won't enforce them. The shooters share their politics.