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Clenard Parker, 42, is charged with evading arrest, unauthorized
use of a vehicle, and three counts of aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon, according to the inmate roster of the Washington
County Jail in Brenham, Texas, where Parker is currently held.
A county judge in neighboring Montgomery County said in a
Facebook post on Friday that Parker committed the act
intentionally, after he was denied a commercial driver's license
at that DPS office the day before.
"He returned today with intent to harm," wrote the judge, Mark
Keough, in the post on Friday.
Parker had stolen the truck and was being pursued by authorities
when he crashed it into the building around 11 a.m. CT on Friday
morning, the DPS said at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
Images of the aftermath showed a tractor-trailer with a crushed
cab in the parking lot of the DPS building in Brenham, about 75
miles northwest of Houston. A wall of the brick building was
smashed in and debris was strewn about the area.
In addition to the motor vehicle agency, the DPS includes the
Texas Rangers police force, which are leading the investigation
into the incident, according to a DPS post on X.
The crash resulted in 13 injuries in addition to the one
fatality, the DPS said at Friday's press conference.
Parker was arrested at the scene, uninjured, by several officers
who pulled him from the truck's cab.
It was unclear as of Monday if Parker had an attorney
representing him.
(Reporting by Julia Harte; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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