Officers found Bradley, then 60, in the cab of the tractor-trailer with a gun. Signs of struggle in the human smuggling operation were everywhere: a hole in the wall that people took turns to breathe through, blood, excrement and vomit said to be in the corners. It was nicknamed el camiĆ³n de la muerte - the truck of death. Up to 200 people were once inside the vehicle, survivors said, as quoted by in court documents. Two more immigrants died after the discovery was made. Following a call from a Walmart employee, law enforcement found 39 undocumented immigrants - eight that had already died and dozens more who were so sick that they required hospitalization. The vehicle was parked behind a Walmart in San Antonio on a hot night in July 2017. "There's not a day or night that goes by that I don't relive this scene." in a video statement played in court which The San Antonio Express-News reported. "I am so sorry it happened," said James Matthew Bradley Jr. district judge handed a sentence of life in prison today to a driver who was transporting undocumented immigrants in a tractor-trailer so hot that ten people died. Officers found 39 immigrants inside a vehicle that he was driving in July 2017. was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday.
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