One particular person has died and at the very least a dozen have been injured after an 18-wheeler crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) constructing, in what police consider is a intentional prison act.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office recognized the driver of the truck like Clenard Parker, 42, who was denied a business driver’s license by DPS the day earlier than. “We consider that is an intentional prison act,” Sheriff Otto Hank advised reporters.
The incident occurred in the workplace the place the driver’s licenses in the city of (*14*), 112 kilometers northwest of Houston, on Highway 290.
Likewise, The DPS, by means of a message on Twitter, has indicated that there aren’t any different threats for the group.
Stolen car
KHOU tv has indicated that the truck was in all probability stolen in Chappel Hill, 27 kilometers southeast of the website of the incident. Television photographs present a truck with trailer of a platform loaded with what seem like metal bars, and the demolished entrance of the constructing.
According to the similar supply and based on police communications, there’s at the very least one dozen individuals injuredsix of which have been transported to space hospitals, three of them by helicopter.
