starting with our city leaders, city management, county judge, state reps, senator cornyn and governor greg abbott. brownsville is a proud, resilient city, we will continue to best serve our community as we mourn and continue our investigation. we will work with our network and support to ensure reunification efforts and victim assistance is made available to all affected. we have established contact with venezuelan officials and we ll continue to work with them. thank you. any questions? are they all from venezuela? from what we know, several are. was he intoxicated, chief? we are waiting on formal toxicology reports. was there a motive that you can talk about? none at this point. several of the witnesses had said that he was cursing at them and saying that they were
driver, as he tried to get away made an obscene gesture and yelled anti-immigrant language. after speaking with authorities late last night, a police spokesman told me that investigators have not been able to substantiate that. the investigation is on going. right now the suspect, who has not been publicly identified, has been arrested and charged with reckless driving. they say more charges could be pending depending on toxicology reports which we don t expect for some time. again, ana, we re awaiting the news conference later this morning where we expect to learn more information from police. this comes as title 42 is set to be lifted later this week, sparking concerns that there might be another migrant influx after that is lifted. right now this community in brownsville is reeling from this loss of eight people. again, the mayor also saying of those that were injured, several remain in critical condition at this hour, ana. frank, investigators are
accident, that took eight lives, at least eight lives, injured ten others. at the minimum, we d note it was obviously a disturbed individual with a lot of criminal history. we are waiting for toxicology reports to see what his state of mind was at the time of the accident and we re going to let law enforcement do their investigation. they ve done a very good job to now, first responders did a great job, appearing very fast and doing a very professional job and taking care of the injured and the deceased. and law enforcement taking the defendant into custody. and this is right in the middle of the preparation, obviously, on the border, the lifting of title 42. so there s a lot of activity in the region. and this just added adds, obviously, a lot of stress to us. we also have the governor doing these inspections on 18-wheelers
multiple individuals for helping us starting with the city leaders, city management, county judge, state reps aaron ramiz and governor greg abbott. brownsville is a proud city as we continue to work the investigation. we will work with the networks to reassure unification efforts and assistance will be made available to all affected. we have established contact with the venezuelan officials and continue the work with them. thank you. any questions? are they all from venezuela? from what we know several are. was he intoxicated, chief? we are waiting on formal toxicology reports. is there a motive that you can talk about? none at this point. several of the witnesses had said that he was cursing at them
at least 10 other people are injured. brian: the driver is in custody and facing several charges already. police say they are still investigating and have not yet released the identity of the driver. steve: i was reading in one of the local papers down in brownsville today, and what the police officers there in brownsville said there are three possible explanations for why that suv plowed into those people. the first one? intoxication. the second, an accident. or the third one intentional. ainsley: yeah, one police officer said doesn t appear to be accidental but a judge, judge eddy trivino jr. said it s unclear with the driver lost control or intentionally ran into the group. i guess they will know more after they interview them. awaiting toxicology reports to find out if there were drugs or any alcohol in their system. brian: hit a cu curb, lost control and people were miss his