Anuar Jobi ID’d as St. Joseph Academy Student Killed in Brownsville Crash on Expressway 83 near Main Street

Brownsville, Texas (August 28, 2023) – Authorities have identified the Saint Joseph Academy senior who died in a car crash early Sunday morning in Brownsville as 17-year-old Anuar Jobi.

The deadly accident happened at around 3:20 a.m. Sunday, August 27, in the eastbound lane of Expressway 83, near the Main Street overpass.

Reportedly, the Saint Joseph students were traveling back to Brownsville from downtown McAllen. Authorities said a gray Volkswagen car traveling the wrong way on the eastbound lanes of the expressway nearly collided with a DPS trooper before colliding head-on with a white Toyota SUV carrying the students near Main Street.

Jobi, who was in the rear driver’s side passenger, died at the scene. The three other passengers, two aged 17 and one aged 18, were taken to local hospitals.

The driver of the Volkswagen, identified as Astulfo Cantu Jr. of Palmview, was pronounced dead at the scene. It is still undetermined if Cantu Jr. was intoxicated.

No further details about the crash were immediately provided.

The crash remains under investigation.

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