SUV crash kills 3 at auction
BILLERICA, Mass. — An SUV being shown to prospective buyers at a crowded indoor auto auction suddenly accelerated with a screech of its tires and crashed through a wall on Wednesday, killing three people, including a woman working her first day there, and injuring nine.
An auction employee in his 70s was behind the wheel of the 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee when it apparently lurched out of control and mowed people down at LynnWay Auto Auction in Billerica, about 20 miles northwest of Boston.
One man and two women were killed in the crash, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
“The preliminary investigation suggests this is a tragic accident,” Ms. Ryan said.
Univ. of Texas stabbings
AUSTIN, Texas — A man accused of stabbing four University of Texas students, leaving one of them dead on campus, told police he couldn’t recall if he was the person behind Monday’s attack, according to a criminal affidavit filed Wednesday in Travis County.
Kendrex White, a 21year-old biology major who police say had been suffering from mental illness and had recently been involuntarily committed at a mental health facility, told investigators, “If I did something that I don’t remember, then I want to be told,” the report says.
Reports of no asylum
TIJUANA, Mexico — Customs agents have increasingly turned away asylum seekers without so much as an interview, according to migrants and their lawyers, in a trend first noted several months ago and that appeared to accelerate after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Human Rights First said it had documented 125 people or families from countries including Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Turkey who were turned away at entry points in Arizona, California and Texas from November to April.
Lockdown at Colgate
On Monday night, Colgate University officials warned that there was an armed person on campus, and advised people to find a safe place. The campus remained locked down for several hours.
Everyone was safe. The police later determined there was no gunman. Students were angry when they learned someone had called police when they saw a black student who had a glue gun that he was using for a school project.
Banana probe at AU
The FBI is helping American University in Washington. D.C., investigate an episode in which bananas were found hanging from nooses on campus this week, a spokeswoman for the agency said on Wednesday.
The bananas were found at the university on Monday, the same day a black woman took office as the student government president for the first time in the institution’s history.
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