Man Beaten to Death by Crowd After Car Accident
A crowd beat a man to death in Texas after a vehicle he was riding in hit and injured a young girl. Police say that between 2,000 and 3,000 people were in the area for the Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred. The driver of the vehicle that hit the girl had stopped to check on the girl when a group of men attacked him. David Rivas Morales, the passenger in the vehicle, got out of the vehicle to help the driver when the crowd turned on him.
Morales was beaten to death by as many as 20 men. He was left lying in a parking lot. The girl who was hit was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver was able to get away from the crowd and is cooperating with investigators.
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