A teenager fleeing from Border Patrol agents crashed his vehicle into a trailer in El Paso, Texas, early Thursday morning, killing himself and six others, including a Mexican male.
The victims were all inside a four-door car when the 18-year-old crashed near a building shortly approximately at 2:15am, El Paso Police Sergeant Robert Gómez said.
Three more were injured and were all rushed to a local hospital.
The three were named as Guatemalan national, Wilmur Gómez, 25; Omar García Hernández, an 18-year-old Mexican native from the border town of Juárez; and a Mexican 16-year-old, who was not named and lived in Juárez.
All three were in stable condition, according to sergeant Gómez.
The ages and nationalities of the victims weren’t immediately known, Gómez added.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said in a statement that Border Patrol agents from the El Paso Sector had responded to a report of suspicious activity near the border with Mexico.
The agents initiated a vehicle stop but the teenager tried to avoid them by accelerating at a higher speed east bound from New Mexico into El Paso.
Investigators at the scene of Thursday morning’s deadly crash that killed an 18-year-old male in El Paso, Texas, along with six other people, including a Mexican male. CBP said Border Patrol agents near the border with Mexico noticed suspicious activity and ordered the 18-year-old to stop his vehicle before he crossed from New Mexico to Texas
The El Paso Police Department said that teen driver lost control of the vehicle at a curve at the 700 block of W. Paisano and subsequently veered across the west bound lanes and struck a trailer located on private property.
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The Border Patrol said in a statement that the agency is cooperating with the police investigation and that the crash was also under review by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
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