{"id":19777,"date":"2025-10-24T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19777\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:28:37","slug":"houston-woman-convicted-of-manslaughter-for-crashing-her-porsche-into-man-who-was-on-a-first-date-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19777\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston woman convicted of manslaughter for crashing her Porsche into man who was on a first date \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/harris-county-judges-bench-ceremonial-courtroom.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-465463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/harris-county-judges-bench-ceremonial-courtroom.jpg\" alt=\"Harris County Criminal Justice Center\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the Harris County District Clerk&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>A judge\u2019s bench in a courtroom at Harris County Criminal Justice Center.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing phase of the trial began Friday for a Houston woman who was found guilty of manslaughter for striking and killing a pedestrian with her sports car in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Kristina Chambers, 34, was convicted by a Harris County jury Thursday in the April 2023 death of Joseph McMullin, 33, who was on a first date and walking on a Montrose-area sidewalk when he was hit by Chambers\u2019 dark blue Porsche 911.<\/p>\n<p>Manslaughter is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. Chambers was still being held in the Harris County Jail as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by McMullin&#8217;s family is still working its way through the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/court\/2023\/05\/04\/450863\/houston-driver-accused-of-intoxication-manslaughter-in-montrose-also-faces-1-million-wrongful-death-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston driver accused of intoxication manslaughter in Montrose also faces $1 million wrongful death lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chambers\u2019 defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. <\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the collision occurred at approximately 2:28 a.m. on April 19, 2023, near the 1200 block of Westheimer Road. According to police, witnesses heard the sound of a car&#8217;s engine revving high, and upon going outside, saw a Porsche 911 that had appeared to have struck a curb, then a pole, and a pedestrian. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as Chambers and the pedestrian, McMullin, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to court documents. Police said Chambers was traveling westbound on Westheimer at a high rate of speed when she &#8220;failed to maintain a single lane of traffic and left the roadway.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Chambers also appeared to be under the influence of alcohol at the time, according to police, who initially charged her with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle. That charge was dismissed in May, three months after a Harris County grand jury indicted Chambers on a manslaughter charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of the Harris County District Clerk&#8217;s Office A judge\u2019s bench in a courtroom at Harris County Criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2441,294,405,15142,15143,56,58,57,66,8518,1987,223,15144,12873],"class_list":{"0":"post-19777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-court","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-harris-county-criminal-justice-center","12":"tag-harris-county-jail","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-manslaughter","18":"tag-montrose","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-pedestrian-death","21":"tag-westheimer-road"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","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=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}