{"id":105142,"date":"2024-04-13T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/one-dead-13-injured-after-man-intentionally-crashes-stolen-semi-truck-into-texas-dps-office-officials\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T00:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:04:20","slug":"one-dead-13-injured-after-man-intentionally-crashes-stolen-semi-truck-into-texas-dps-office-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/one-dead-13-injured-after-man-intentionally-crashes-stolen-semi-truck-into-texas-dps-office-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, 13 injured after man intentionally crashes stolen semi-truck into Texas DPS office: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-12\/KTRK_Crash_041224.png\" alt><figcaption>KTRK-TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(BRENHAM, Texas) &#8212; One person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a man allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen semi-truck into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in Brenham on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect is in custody, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tragic day for us,&#8221; Texas DPS Regional Director Gerald Brown told reporters during a press briefing Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time, when the driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler into a Texas DPS driver&#8217;s license office, Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect &#8212; identified by authorities as Clenard Parker, 42 &#8212; had been informed by the office on Thursday that he was not eligible to renew his commercial driver&#8217;s license, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then &#8220;returned today with intent to harm,&#8221; Washington County Judge Mark Keough said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Six people were transported to area hospitals, one of whom died from their injuries at the hospital, authorities said. Eight victims were treated at the scene and released.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were all inside the building at the time of the crash. It is unclear how many were civilians, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene showed extensive damage to the Texas DPS office.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers are investigating and there is no further threat to the community, Texas DPS said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTRK-TV (BRENHAM, Texas) &#8212; One person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a man allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen semi-truck into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in Brenham on Friday, officials said. A suspect is in custody, authorities said. &#8220;This is a tragic day for<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/one-dead-13-injured-after-man-intentionally-crashes-stolen-semi-truck-into-texas-dps-office-officials\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}