BRENHAM, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety—Southeast Region on Monday reported a second victim has died following an April 12 crash in which a truck was purposely driven into a DPS office.

What You Need To Know

  • The Texas Department of Public of Safety says a second victim has died after a truck was intentionally rammed into one of its offices on April 12

  • The second victim to die was identified as Cheryl Turner, 63, of Brenham, Texas

  • A semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building in Brenham where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected

  • The driver was taken into custody. More than a dozen people were injured and one person was pronounced dead at the scene 

DPS said that it and the Washington County DA’s office have identified the decedent as Cheryl Turner, 63, of Brenham.

Back on April 12, a semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building in Brenham where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected, killing one person immediately and injuring 13 others.

The intentional crash into the single-story brick building off a highway in Brenham, a rural town outside of Houston, littered debris in the parking lot and left a gaping hole in the entrance. The crash damaged the front of the red semitrailer, which was hauling materials on a flatbed.

After crashing into the building the first time, the driver backed up the truck intending to smash it again before being detained, Brenham Mayor Atwood Kenjura said.

The driver — identified as Clenard Parker, 42 — was pulled out of the truck by authorities. Police said Parker did not resist when he was taken into custody and would face multiple felonies.

Kenjura said a fire department official told him if Parker had “veered to the left” and succeeded in striking the building again, “there would have been a collapse of the building resulting in more injuries and possibly death.”