Texas ? About three or four people – not a mob of up to 20 – beat a man to death after the car he was riding in struck and injured a toddler, police said Thursday.

Police backed off earlier descriptions of Tuesday’s attack, also saying that fewer than two dozen people – rather than hundreds – were witnesses.

City officials also said the attack was not connected to the city-sponsored Juneteenth celebration that had just wrapped up nearby that celebrates the day Texas slaves learned they were freed.

City officials had a news conference to revise their report Wednesday that 2,000 to 3,000 festivalgoers were in the area when David Rivas Morales, 40, was beaten to death after a car in which he was riding bumped a toddler. The toddler was not seriously hurt.