{"id":222467,"date":"2026-03-27T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/222467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:05:07","slug":"teen-driver-rams-through-texas-home-killing-mother-and-young-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/222467\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen driver rams through Texas home, killing mother and young son"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Texas mom and her 7-year-old child were killed when a teen driver plowed through their home in the middle of the night, according to police and reports.<\/p>\n

Gracie Yates, 18, was arrested after she allegedly crashed into the bedroom of 7-year-old Alex Aaron Rocha and 49-year-old Barbara Rocha in Stephenville just after 3:20 a.m. Sunday, according to the Stephenville Police Department<\/a> and Fox4.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gracie Yates, 18, was arrested after she allegedly crashed into the bedroom of 7-year-old Alex Aaron Rocha and 49-year-old Barbara Rocha in Stephenville. Erath County Shreiff’s Office<\/p>\n

Both the mother and son died from their injuries despite life-saving efforts, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018All I heard is a crash, I went in the room, and all you can hear is my little brother screaming and my mom praying,’\u201d Raul Rocha, Alex Rocha\u2019s older brother,\u00a0recounted to Fox4\u00a0<\/a>what his other sibling told him he witnessed during the fatal crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what he said \u2026 I have that stuck in the back of my head right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never imagined this to happen to me. I never imagined losing my mom. My mom does not deserve this,\u201d Rocha said. \u201cShe was so sweet. She always cared about us. She cared about anybody around her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mother and son died despite life-saving efforts. WFAA via CNN<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old faces two charges of criminally negligent\u00a0homicide, according to jail records reviewed by Law&Crime.\u00a0<\/a>Police did not say whether she was impaired while driving.<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe created for the family of Barbara and Alex, however, alleged that a \u201cdrunk driver\u201d was responsible for the \u201cunimaginable\u201d loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecently, a drunk driver crashed through Alfredo\u2019s house, taking the lives of his beloved wife and son. In an instant, Alfredo lost his family and the place he called home,\u201d the fundraiser statement said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlfredo and his family are good people who did not deserve to have this tragedy happen to them because of a drunk driver,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

7-year-old Alex Aaron Rocha was killed in his bedroom, alongside his mother. FOX<\/p>\n

The heartbroken husband of Barbara is \u201cnow without a house and is struggling to cover the funeral costs for his wife and son. FOX<\/p>\n

The heartbroken father is \u201cnow without a house and is struggling to cover the funeral costs for his wife and son. He\u2019s also in urgent need of temporary housing and support for other immediate needs as he tries to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yates was released on a $14,500 bond on Tuesday, court records obtained by Law&Crime showed. <\/p>\n

An investigation into the incident remains ongoing, cops said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas mom and her 7-year-old child were killed when a teen driver plowed through their home in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,13530,10912,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-222467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222467","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=222467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}