{"id":149901,"date":"2026-02-04T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:16:11","slug":"houston-man-27-charged-with-intoxication-manslaughter-in-fatal-pierce-street-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149901\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man, 27, charged with intoxication manslaughter in fatal Pierce Street crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 27-year-old Houston man has been arrested and charged\u00a0in the death of a 32-year-old woman leaving a Houston club Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Enrique Acevedo Barocio, 27, is charged with intoxication manslaughter in Harris County&#8217;s 497th Criminal District Court following an auto-pedestrian crash that took place late Sunday in the 2400 block of Pierce Street south of downtown Houston, <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/houstontx\/suspect-arrested-charged-in-fatal-crash-at-2400-pierce-street?e=e36e80ea66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to a release from the Houston Police Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to a release from the Houston Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FROM THE SCENE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/houston-pierce-street-dwi-crash-21328587.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Driver arrested after woman killed in suspected DWI pedestrian crash on Pierce Street, HPD says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Driver arrested after woman killed in suspected DWI pedestrian crash on Pierce Street, HPD says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the woman has not been released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifs.harriscountytx.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences<\/a>, pending the notification of family members, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police allege Barocio was driving a blue Ford Expedition that was traveling eastbound on Pierce Street at a high rate of speed late Sunday night when the vehicle struck a pedestrian and several parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman killed was leaving a club and crossing the street when the crash occurred. She died at the scene, police said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities allege that Barocio, who works as a barber, showed signs of intoxication at the scene before he was arrested,\u00a0according to Harris County court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His bond was set at $250,000, according to Harris County records. He remained in the Harris County Jail Tuesday and was scheduled to be in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/houston-intoxication-manslaughter-pedestrian-21331580.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston man, 27, charged with intoxication manslaughter in fatal Pierce Street crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston man, 27, charged with intoxication manslaughter in fatal Pierce Street crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old Houston man has been arrested and charged\u00a0in the death of a 32-year-old woman leaving a Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29208,62423,405,15143,56,62422,58,57,2543,8858],"class_list":{"0":"post-149901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-criminal-district-court","9":"tag-enrique-acevedo-barocio","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-harris-county-jail","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-club","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-houston-police-department","17":"tag-intoxication-manslaughter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149901","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=149901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}