Staff

-Eagle Pass

El conocido veterinario de Piedras Negras, Gerardo Chapa de 46 años de edad, fue llevado a un hospital en San Antonio, Texas luego de haber recibido 2 heridas de bala en un incidente ocurrido el jueves por la tarde en la vecina ciudad mexicana.

Rick Fuentes, jefe de diputados del Sheriff, informó que fue el propio Veterinario quien manejó su camioneta pick up para llegar a la Aduana de estados Unidos en el Puente internacional Dos y solicitar ayuda.

Una ambulancia los translado a la sala de emergencia local, y luego la misma tarde del jueves fue llevado a un hospital en San Antonio, para recibir atención especializada.

Por parte del departamento del Sheriff se informó que el Medico Veterninario no habria sufrido heridas que pusieran en peligro su vida, pero necesitaban la atención de ciruganos.

Las autoridades informaron que un disparo de bala le afectó un dedo de una mano y otro balazo le impactó la espalda.

El departamento del Sheriff dio a conocer que no estan claras las formas en que el medico resultó herido, eso es algo que paso en lado mexicano.

Staff

-Eagle Pass

A fatal accident occurred Friday afternoon at the intersection of Veterans Boulevard and Main St. where a motorcyclist died after colliding with a pickup truck. The victim was dead at the scene and  the injuries were severe.

Police Chief, Juan Antonio Castaneda, said the victim was identified as Richard Robert Sanchez, a native of the city of Corpus Christi, who was in Eagle Pass to buy a motorcycle which he was riding at the time of the accident.  .

According to data released the victim was on a test drive, and intended to buy the motorcycle. The victim was traveling on Veterans Boulevard southbound and struck a Ford F-150, which was driven by Jose Maria Lopez, an employee of the school district, which was traveling northbound on Veteran's Blvd, Lopez then  turned left into Main street when the fatal impact occurred.

The Justice of the Peace for Precinct 1, Tere Melendrez, pronounced the death of the victim.

Because of this accident the traffic on Veteran's was reduced to a standstill, police were on scene to control the traffic situation. The accident occurred around 6 pm.

The police department is responsible for investigating the causes of the accident.

Staff

-Eagle Pass

Police officers fired on a youth from the Rosita Valley area who put the lives of two officers in danger as he nearly ran them over in a Chevy Suburban.

The young man identified as Victor Rivas, 18, was not injured.

The incident occurred on Thursday at midnight at the parking lot of the McDonald's in the Seco Mines area where officers responded to a report of a youth who was over aggressive with restaurant employees and those of the store adjacent to the establishment.

Chief of Police Antonio Castañeda reported that the officers arrived on the scene and parked a unit behind the Suburban to keep it from leaving and ordered the man to get off of the vehicle.

According to the report, the subject disobeyed the order and placed the vehicle in reverse crashing into the patrol car.

The officers proceeded to get off of their unit on the passenger's side and attempted to reach into the Suburban to turn off the ignition, but the man continued in reverse hitting the officers with his door.

It was then that the officers feared for their lives and began shooting at the vehicle.

The SUV sped off despite being hit three times in the windshield and three times in the driver's side door.  The Suburban sped away with a flat tire and did not come to a stop until it wrecked with another vehicle in which the passengers were a woman and her child.

The material damages were extensive.

Rivas was detained and will likely be charged with wreckless driving and most importantly harming the officers and using his vehicle as a deadly weapon.

It is unknown why the man was acting in such a way and the case remains under investigation.