A San Antonio man has been arrested and charged in a drunken crash that killed his passenger nearly two years ago, court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On March 26, a Bexar County grand jury indicted Walter Allen Gutierrez, 71, on a charge of intoxication manslaughter.<\/p>\n
He is accused in a July 3, 2024, crash on the Northwest Side that killed Marissa Sifuentes, 25, according to a crash report from the San Antonio Police Department.<\/p>\n
Just after 8:30 a.m. that morning, Gutierrez was driving a Dodge Grand Caravan minivan eastbound in the 7800 block of\u00a0Grissom Road.\u00a0He had two passengers, Sifuentes and a 29-year-old man.<\/p>\n
When Guiterrez attempted to turn left onto private property, he did not yield to a Ford F-150 heading westbound,\u00a0causing the pickup truck to T-bone the minivan.<\/p>\n
First responders took\u00a0Gutierrez, Sifuentes\u00a0and the 29-year-old passenger to the hospital. The driver and passenger in the pickup truck were also hospitalized, according to the crash report.<\/p>\n
Sifuentes died from her injuries July 21, 2024. The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled her\u00a0death an accident, the result of\u00a0blunt\u00a0force injuries.<\/p>\n
The indictment accuses Gutierrez of becoming intoxicated and causing the crash by “failing to keep a proper lookout, failing to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic, and driving a motor vehicle into the path of an oncoming motor vehicle.”<\/p>\n
Authorities have not specified the relationship between Gutierrez and Sifuentes.<\/p>\n
He is in\u00a0custody at the Bexar County jail with bail set at $125,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio man has been arrested and charged in a drunken crash that killed his passenger nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-237602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237602","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=237602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}