{"id":233978,"date":"2026-04-03T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:41:09","slug":"man-71-held-in-jail-without-bond-following-2024-intoxication-manslaughter-case-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233978\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 71, held in jail without bond following 2024 intoxication manslaughter case, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A San Antonio man was indicted late last month after a passenger in his vehicle was killed in a Northwest Side crash nearly two full years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to Bexar County jail records, San Antonio police took Walter Allen Gutierrez, 71, into custody on Thursday. He has been accused of intoxication manslaughter \u2014 a second-degree felony \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/07\/03\/5-taken-to-hospital-after-t-bone-crash-on-northwest-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/07\/03\/5-taken-to-hospital-after-t-bone-crash-on-northwest-side\/\">related to a deadly July 3, 2024, crash<\/a> in the 7800 block of Grissom Road near Misty Way Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KSAT received a copy of Gutierrez\u2019s March 26 intoxication manslaughter indictment on Friday. The indictment identified Marissa Sifuentes as the person who died in the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to an SAPD preliminary report from July 3, 2024, Gutierrez (the driver) and Sifuentes (the passenger) were traveling in a 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan. Gutierrez attempted to make a left turn into a private parking lot when a Ford F-150, which had the right of way, crashed into Sifuentes\u2019 passenger side, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Five people were taken to the hospital after a T-bone crash on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, in the 7800 block of Grissom Road. (Copyright 2024 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police said Sifuentes was thrown from the Dodge Grand Caravan\u2019s front passenger seat to the rear passenger seat on contact. She suffered \u201csevere\u201d injuries to her right leg and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, the report said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Four others, including Gutierrez, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, an SAPD spokesperson said at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office, Sifuentes died from complications related to blunt force injuries suffered in the crash. Her death was ruled an accident. <\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez\u2019s previous arrest<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Thursday, Gutierrez was also booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on an unrelated suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI) charge, jail records indicate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The suspicion of DWI charge, which happened in July 2023, is considered a Class B misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Records show Gutierrez appeared in court on April 11, 2024 \u2014 three months before the deadly crash \u2014 and pled no contest to the DWI charge. At the hearing, a judge granted him deferred adjudication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Following Gutierrez\u2019s intoxication manslaughter indictment and arrest, a Bexar County judge decided on Thursday to hold him in jail without bond, court documents show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Gutierrez is scheduled to make his next court appearance in the 2023 DWI case on May 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More recent crime coverage on KSAT: <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A San Antonio man was indicted late last month after a passenger in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,815,268,294,4471,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-233978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bexar-county","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-northwest-side","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","15":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233978","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=233978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}