{"id":343567,"date":"2026-06-20T00:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343567\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:44:36","slug":"nw-houston-common-law-wife-arrested-for-mans-hit-and-run-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343567\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Houston: Common-law wife arrested for man&#8217;s hit-and-run death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her common-law husband in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/holly-view-drive-deadly-crash-northwest-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">northwest Houston hit-and-run on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   Houston Holly View crash: Woman arrested <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Court records confirm 41-year-old Martha Padilla is in Harris County custody on a murder charge and a charge of failure to stop and render aid (FSRA).<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Padilla is accused of killing her common-law husband, Luis Adrian Zepeda Lopez.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash was reported at around 8 a.m. Thursday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Holly+View+Dr+%26+Antoine+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77091\/@29.8579414,-95.4764418,16z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c601762d7f45:0x841e9d9552d0d20a!8m2!3d29.8579414!4d-95.4734485!16s%2Fg%2F11hb95kh7w?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Holly View Drive near Antoine Drive<\/a> in the Greater Inwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Police tell FOX 26 that Padilla and Lopez were arguing when Padilla struck Lopez with a vehicle. In court documents, prosecutors claim Padilla&#8217;s two children were in the car when the hit-and-run happened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Padilla&#8217;s FSRA bond is set at $50,000. The bond for her murder charge has not been set at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Other details about the crash are not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police, previous FOX 26 reporting, and records from the Harris County District Clerk&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/inwood\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inwood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her common-law husband in a northwest Houston hit-and-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,32504,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-343567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-inwood","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343567","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=343567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}