{"id":18826,"date":"2025-10-24T05:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:29:37","slug":"kristina-chambers-found-guilty-in-houston-crash-that-killed-pedestrian-on-first-date-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18826\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristina Chambers found guilty in Houston crash that killed pedestrian on first date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kristina Chambers was charged with manslaughter in the death of Joseph McMullin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McMullin had just left a donut shop with his date when he was struck and killed on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators alleged Chambers was driving at an excessive speed and was intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/woman-trial-2023-crash-killed-pedestrian-first-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:A Houston woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">A Houston woman<\/a> has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a man who was tragically killed during a first date in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kristina Chambers was charged in the death of 33-year-old Joseph McMullin.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly 2023 crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Houston police, McMullin had just left a donut shop with his date around 2 a.m. when he was struck and killed on the sidewalk near Voodoo Doughnut on Westheimer Road in Montrose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators alleged Chambers was driving in a Porsche at an excessive speed when she lost control, hit a curb, and fatally struck McMullin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors said Chambers was intoxicated, with a blood alcohol content nearly four times the legal limit. Prosecutors also said that drugs, including cocaine, were found inside her car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this article comes from court proceedings and previous reporting, including information from Houston police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Kristina Chambers was charged with manslaughter in the death of Joseph McMullin. McMullin had just left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14468,14467,56,58,57,8063,14466,14093,14469],"class_list":["post-18826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-donut-shop","tag-excessive-speed","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police","tag-joseph-mcmullin","tag-kristina-chambers","tag-mcmullin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826","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=18826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}