On Sunday evening, cars arrived just after sundown for a memorial mass led by Bishop Daniel Flores of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville. “But you can’t do anything because you’re not a doctor.” He ran over and tried to help, but said there was little he could do. Granadillo said he was across the road at the nearest intersection when the crash happened. “Leave my country,” he recalled the driver saying. “He said ‘damn your mother, immigrants’,” Freddy Granadillo, who migrated to Texas from Venezuela and was staying at the Ozanam center Sunday, told the Guardian in Spanish. But witnesses said he yelled slurs towards those outside the shelter after attempting to flee the crash scene. The victims have not yet been named but many are believed to be Venezuelan.Īnd police have not yet released the name of the suspected driver, who has been detained. A car had plowed into a group waiting at a bus stop across from the Ozanam Center, an overnight shelter housing a growing migrant population, most fleeing crises in their home countries in Central and South America, Haiti and parts of Africa.
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