A San Antonio man has been arrested and charged in a drunken crash that killed his passenger nearly two years ago, court records show.
On March 26, a Bexar County grand jury indicted Walter Allen Gutierrez, 71, on a charge of intoxication manslaughter.
He is accused in a July 3, 2024, crash on the Northwest Side that killed Marissa Sifuentes, 25, according to a crash report from the San Antonio Police Department.
Just after 8:30 a.m. that morning, Gutierrez was driving a Dodge Grand Caravan minivan eastbound in the 7800 block of Grissom Road. He had two passengers, Sifuentes and a 29-year-old man.
When Guiterrez attempted to turn left onto private property, he did not yield to a Ford F-150 heading westbound, causing the pickup truck to T-bone the minivan.
First responders took Gutierrez, Sifuentes and the 29-year-old passenger to the hospital. The driver and passenger in the pickup truck were also hospitalized, according to the crash report.
Sifuentes died from her injuries July 21, 2024. The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled her death an accident, the result of blunt force injuries.
The indictment accuses Gutierrez of becoming intoxicated and causing the crash by “failing to keep a proper lookout, failing to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic, and driving a motor vehicle into the path of an oncoming motor vehicle.”
Authorities have not specified the relationship between Gutierrez and Sifuentes.
He is in custody at the Bexar County jail with bail set at $125,000.