The Lincolnton Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying this black SUV. Authorities say the vehicle was intentionally driven into six migrants waiting for a bus at the parking lot of a North Carolina Walmart. Image courtesy of Lincolnton Police Department/Facebook
July 31 (UPI) — Authorities in North Carolina said six migrant workers where intentionally ran over by a White man driving a sport utility vehicle in a Walmart parking lot.
The incident happened shortly before 1:20 p.m. Sunday at the Walmart located at 306 North Generals Blvd in Lincolton, a city home to fewer than 12,000 people about 38 miles northwest of Charlotte.
The six migrants were struck by what the Lincolnton Police Department said in a statement was a older model mid-sized SUV driven by an “older White male.”
“The motives of the suspect are still under investigation,” the department said.
Local police said the workers were hit “in what appears to be an intentional assault with a vehicle.”
All six migrants were transported to a local hospital with various injuries though none appeared to be life threatening.
The Lincolnton Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the vehicle and its driver, posting images of the black SUV to its Facebook account that were presumably taken from surveillance footage of the Walmart parking lot.
The incident comes nearly two months after a driver plowed through a group of migrants waiting for a bus in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight people.
The driver, who’s been identified as 34-year-old George Alvarez, has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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