{"id":197653,"date":"2026-03-10T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:11:09","slug":"texas-woman-allegedly-plowed-through-crime-scene-ran-over-already-dead-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197653\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas woman allegedly plowed through crime scene, ran over already-dead victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas woman allegedly crashed through a cordoned-off crime scene and ran over the body of an already dead victim with her car, according to authorities and reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old victim was first clipped by a car\u2019s side mirror near State Highway 211 and subsequently hit by a second driver as he lay on the roadway on Feb. 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/28\/woman-arrested-after-driving-into-crash-scene-running-over-male-body-in-west-bexar-county-sheriff-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a press conference. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was covered with a sheet, while cops closed off the street to traffic. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38727615\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/man-fatally-struck-two-vehicles-123198435.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Tionne Spears.\" class=\"wp-image-38727615\"  \/>Tionne Spears, 26, allegedly crashed through a cordoned-off crime scene and ran over an already dead victim with her car. Bexar County Jail<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, 26-year-old Tionne Spears allegedly mowed through the barricaded area and plowed over the man\u2019s corpse.<\/p>\n<p>Spears also nearly hit two deputies who were on the scene investigating the incident, Salazar said. Nobody else was injured during the erratic crash.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies suspect she was intoxicated and found that she was in possession of khat, a stimulant plant native to Africa that can lower one\u2019s pain tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The drug \u201cdoes have some extremely measurable effects on the human body,\u201d Salazar told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators are awaiting the results of a toxicology test to confirm whether Spears had the drug in her system or was taking any other substances when she barreled through the crime scene, police added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38727619\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/man-fatally-struck-two-vehicles-123198437.jpg\" alt=\"Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar speaking at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-38727619\"  \/>Deputies suspected Spears was intoxicated and found that she was in possession of khat, a stimulant plant native to Africa that can lower one\u2019s pain tolerance, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a press conference. Bexar County Sheriffs Office<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers who initially hit the 61-year-old man remained on scene, and no criminal wrongdoing is suspected in their cases, the sheriff confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Spears was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center and charged with driving while intoxicated, abuse of a corpse, and possession of a controlled substance,\u00a0authorities added. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this job 33 years now and never heard of somebody barreling through a crime scene like that and running over a dead body that\u2019s already on the roadway,\u201d Salazar told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not immediately clear why the man was on the roadway when he was hit. A black Chrysler 300\u00a0registered to him was found near the scene, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas woman allegedly crashed through a cordoned-off crime scene and ran over the body of an already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13530,13531,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-197653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-car-crashes","9":"tag-dui","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197653","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=197653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}