One person was killed and at least a dozen were injured after an 18-wheeler crashed into a Department of Public Safety building. Texas (DPS, in English), which the police believe was a premeditated criminal act.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office identified the driver of the truck as 42-year-old Clenard Parker, who DPS the day before they refused to issue a commercial driver’s license.

“We believe this is a deliberate criminal act,” Sheriff Otto Hank told reporters.

The incident occurred in the office where driver’s license is being processed in the town of Brenham, 112 kilometers northwest of Houston, on Highway 290.

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The traffic police indicated in a message on the social network “X” that there are no other threats to the population.

TV station HOU He noted that, according to the police, at least a dozen people were injuredSix of them were taken to area hospitals, three of them by helicopter.

According to the same source, the truck is likely was stolen in Chappell Hill, 27 kilometers southeast of the incident.

TV pictures show truck with loaded flatbed trailer with what appears to be steel bars and a destroyed building façade. (EFE)