{"id":249753,"date":"2026-04-14T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:17:06","slug":"driver-sentenced-to-40-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-2024-crash-that-killed-2-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249753\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver sentenced to 40 years after pleading guilty to 2024 crash that killed 2 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; 32-year-old Anthony Washington pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/03\/28\/2-dead-after-wednesday-night-crash-1-arrested\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/03\/28\/2-dead-after-wednesday-night-crash-1-arrested\/\">in connection with a deadly 2024 crash<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Washington was sentenced to 40 years on each count in the 137th District Court by Judge Trey McClendon on Tuesday afternoon. His sentence will run concurrently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On March 27, 2024, emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle crash near Spur 327 and Milwaukee Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Driver, 20-year-old Blake Garza, and passenger, 18-year-old Naomi Harry, were traveling east in the 6500 block of Spur 327 when they collided with Washington, who was driving an SUV heading south on Milwaukee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harry died at the scene of the crash. Garza was taken to UMC where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; 32-year-old Anthony Washington pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[94807,294,36117,13710,319,251,168,170,169,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-249753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-anthony-washington","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-guilty","11":"tag-guilty-plea","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-manslaughter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249753","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=249753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}