{"id":105513,"date":"2025-12-30T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105513\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:27:07","slug":"kingsville-fd-veteran-police-candidate-dies-in-off-duty-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105513\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsville FD veteran, police candidate dies in off-duty crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kingsville police recruit and former firefighter was killed in a motorcycle crash at Caesar Avenue and 8th Street, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 35-year-old Kingsville man who was preparing to be sworn in as a Kingsville police officer was killed Tuesday in a motorcycle collision, according to the Kingsville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas-authorities-urge-to-end-deaths-on-roads\/503-6b9410d7-68f7-4c09-895a-fdb136000dcf\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TxDOT and DPS work together to &#8216;End the Streak&#8217; to end deaths on Texas roads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to multiple 9-1-1 calls at 11:57 a.m. regarding a crash at Caesar Avenue and 8th Street. Police said a 2025 Yamaha motorcycle was traveling eastbound on Caesar Avenue when a 2000 Ford pickup traveling westbound turned left in front of the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle rider, identified as Moises Castillo, was transported to Christus Spohn Hospital\u2013Kleberg, where he was pronounced dead. The driver of the pickup, a 67-year-old Kingsville resident, suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers are assisting Kingsville police with the ongoing investigation, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Castillo was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and spent more than a decade in public safety and emergency services. He began his fire service career in 2013 with the Refinery Terminal Fire Company before joining Nueces County ESD No. 2 in 2018. He later served with the Kingsville Fire Department from 2018 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bde07272-5ae0-4f38-85c6-7f29f39b9977_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bde07272-5ae0-4f38-85c6-7f29f39b9977_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Castillo earned his paramedic certification and held multiple professional credentials, including Advanced Structure Firefighter, Fire Instructor II, EMS Instructor, Driver Operator\u2013Pumper, Advanced Fire Inspector and Fire Officer I.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Kingsville Fire Department, Castillo enrolled at the police academy at Del Mar College and joined the Kingsville Police Department. He was scheduled to be sworn in as a KPD officer in January.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kingsville police recruit and former firefighter was killed in a motorcycle crash at Caesar Avenue and 8th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-105513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}