{"id":155330,"date":"2026-02-07T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:17:09","slug":"suspect-still-sought-in-deadly-southeast-houston-hit-and-run-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155330\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect still sought in deadly southeast Houston hit-and-run on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Authorities are still searching for the person responsible for hitting and killing a man in a hit-and-run on Christmas Eve in southeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Crime Stoppers of Houston on Saturday announced a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to the location and arrest of the suspect or suspects.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Erick Naftali Buruca was walking along the South Loop East Service around 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve when he was hit by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to Crime Stoppers, the vehicle continued driving and did not stop to help Buruca.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">He would later die as a result of the injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Crime Stoppers is asking anyone with information to call 713-222-8477, submit a tip through the mobile app or through www.crime-stoppers.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Crime Stoppers of Houston<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; Authorities are still searching for the person responsible for hitting and killing a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-155330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155330","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=155330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}