Car Hits 10 People at Border; 4 Killed
Four people were killed and six others hospitalized Tuesday night when a San Diego man driving along the U.S.-Mexico border ran into a group of 10 people while trying to avoid two other pedestrians, police said.
Jose Castro Rivera, 28, was westbound on Calle Internacional in Tijuana at 5:53 p.m. when he swerved his compact car.
“He tried to turn and miss them, but he lost control and ran into a group of people on the wall” on the Mexican side of the border, San Diego Police Officer Dewayne Glazewski said.
Two men were flung over the wall to the U.S. side of the border and died at the scene; a man and a woman lay dead on the Mexico side, police said.
Rivera, who San Diego police said is a doctor who lives in San Diego but practices in Mexico, was taken into custody by Tijuana police.
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