A crowd in Austin, Texas attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.
Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.
The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how many people were involved. The driver who was able to get away is now cooperating with investigators, police said.
This incident follows on the heels of a report from the Milwaukee police that a 33-year-old man has a broken tooth and cuts all over his face after a group of teenagers pulled him from his car and beat him following a Juneteenth celebration in that city.
It happened a few blocks away from Milwaukee's Juneteenth street festival. Police say hundreds of teenagers started kicking the man's car. The man who was pulled from his car was treated and released from a local hospital. No details were released regarding the teens' motive.
Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.
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