{"id":248377,"date":"2026-04-14T00:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:34:17","slug":"police-identify-driver-who-died-while-fleeing-traffic-stop-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248377\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify driver who died while fleeing traffic stop in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 23-year-old man has been identified as the driver who died during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/article\/man-killed-crash-attempting-flee-fort-worth-police-22190079.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:vehicle pursuit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;vehicle pursuit&quot;}\" class=\"link \">vehicle pursuit<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fort Worth;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fort Worth&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Fort Worth<\/a> police on April 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hugo Gabriel Carrillo died from blunt force injuries in a vehicle accident in the 1600 block of Tarver Road in Burleson, according to the\u00a0Tarrant County medical examiner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before crashing,\u00a0Carrillo was involved in a pursuit with Fort Worth police. Officers first encountered a vehicle driving without headlights on at 2:34 a.m. on Interstate 35 near\u00a0Rosedale Street.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, the vehicle struck another vehicle and did not stop. Officers attempted a traffic stop, but the driver, later identified as\u00a0Carrillo, fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said Carrillo struck a second vehicle during the pursuit and failed to stop. The chase continued until the vehicle got off the highway near Tarver Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers briefly lost sight of the vehicle but later discovered it had crashed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carillo was found dead inside, according to police. A passenger in the vehicle had minor injuries and was taken to a hospital, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man has been identified as the driver who died during a vehicle pursuit with Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3737,94398,87273,9634],"class_list":["post-248377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-hugo-gabriel-carrillo","tag-vehicle-accident","tag-vehicle-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248377","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=248377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}