{"id":370024,"date":"2026-07-12T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370024\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:55:12","slug":"four-die-in-early-morning-crash-near-dekalb-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370024\/","title":{"rendered":"Four die in early-morning crash near DeKalb, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOWIE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Four people are dead after a two-vehicle crash early Saturday in western Bowie County.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3:20 a.m. Saturday, the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol responded to a crash on U.S. Highway 259, approximately 4 miles south of DeKalb, according to Sgt. Ethan Sartor, DPS spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Dru Wilson, 23, of DeKalb, was northbound in a Nissan Altima when the\u00a0vehicle crossed into the southbound lane and collided head-on with a Dodge Charger, according to a preliminary investigation. Wilson died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Ellestad, 22, Payton Butler, 24, and Ty Byrd, 20, addresses not provided, were in the Charger. All died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and no further information was available late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>    Title<\/p>\n<p>\n  Comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOWIE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Four people are dead after a two-vehicle crash early Saturday in western Bowie County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370024","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=370024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}