The discovery of a trailer full of dead people in San Antonio, Texas, has led the authorities to delve a little deeper into the subject to find out what exactly happened.
On Telemundo it has been announced that the authorities confirmed that the heavy vehicle left loaded with 70 immigrants from the city of Laredo, Texas, crossed the checkpoint of the Border Patrol with the people inside and arrived in San Antonio.
According to the investigators, the human smugglers used the dead times in which there is a change of shift in the Border Patrol to go through said checkpoint without raising suspicions.
“Illegal trafficking that led to death”
The aforementioned medium also announced that Homero Zamorano had his first court hearing where he is accused of ” Illegal trafficking that led to death” and where they also told him that e could spend the rest of his life behind bars and could even face the death penalty.
Days ago Police Chief William McManus pointed out that the scene of the trailer full of dead is most tragic that he has ever seen.
“This was a crime against humanity. This was nothing but sheer evil, that anyone could allow this to happen, to anyone, let alone so many people,” he noted. And he added: “The floor of the trailer was completely covered with bodies. Completely covered in bodies. There were at least more than 10 bodies outside the trailer, because when we arrived, when the emergency crews arrived, we were trying to find people who were still alive. So we had to get the bodies out of the trailer onto the ground.”
Wife of driver: “He is a good man”
While Homero Zamorano is pointed out as the culprit of the death of 13 immigrants, his wife insists on saying that her husband is a “good man”.
The deadliest human smuggling incident in the history of the United States has 13 victims, many of them minors who left home with the sole purpose of having a better life for themselves and their loved ones, however, they found death inside the box of the trailer without air and water.
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