A 31-year-old man was killed after being attacked with a board and then struck with a vehicle in Mission on Sunday, the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Deputies at around 8:52 p.m. found the body of Christian Castillo, 31, lying on Minnesota Road south of Mile 5 Road in Mission.

Witnesses told deputies that Castillo had been followed by a Chevrolet HHR occupied “by at least two men,” with one of them exiting the Chevy and striking the victim “multiple times with a wooden board, causing him to fall to the ground.”

Castillo was then struck by another vehicle, this one a blue Chevrolet Silverado traveling southbound and didn’t stop. Deputies, however, say this was unrelated to the earlier assault.

The Texas Department of Public Safety assisted with the investigatio

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