{"id":256162,"date":"2026-04-07T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:09:12","slug":"22-year-old-turns-himself-in-after-crash-kills-mother-and-son-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256162\/","title":{"rendered":"22-Year-Old Turns Himself In After Crash Kills Mother and Son in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old man turned himself in Monday night in connection with a morning collision that killed a mother and her son at McKinley Avenue and Freeway 41, Fresno police said.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Seth Chavez surrendered to a deputy at the Fresno County Jail around 9 p.m. after the crash, which occurred at approximately 1:57 a.m. Monday. Chavez struck a car, sending it into a nearby canal.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were identified as Martha Hernandez, 41, and her 9-year-old son, Adrian Hernandez, both of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police officers detained Chavez and transported him to the Fresno Police Department, where detectives interviewed him.<\/p>\n<p>He was medically cleared at Community Regional Medical Center before being booked on two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, two counts of felony hit and run, driving on a suspended license, and driving without insurance, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>His bail is $81,301.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man turned himself in Monday night in connection with a morning collision that killed a mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-256162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}