{"id":370336,"date":"2026-07-12T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:17:07","slug":"wylie-teen-faces-murder-charge-after-police-say-he-intentionally-struck-man-with-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370336\/","title":{"rendered":"Wylie Teen Faces Murder Charge After Police Say He Intentionally Struck Man With Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Wylie police charged Rene Padilla with murder after Maximiliano Maldonado died from injuries suffered in an alleged intentional vehicle strike. | Wylie Police Department <\/p>\n

Wylie police upgraded the charge against 19-year-old Rene Padilla to murder Saturday after 20-year-old Maximiliano Maldonado died from injuries police say Padilla caused by intentionally striking him with a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Someone flagged down a Wylie police officer at approximately 3:38 p.m. on July 5 in the 800 block of Woodbridge Parkway to report vehicles possibly racing behind a parking lot.<\/p>\n

The officer then found a vehicle-pedestrian collision in the parking lot at 207 Security Court. Emergency responders treated Maldonado for a severe head injury and took him to a regional hospital in critical condition, according<\/a> to the Wylie Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police allege intentional strike<\/p>\n

Investigators said Maldonado and Rene Padilla, 19, argued before Maldonado got out of his vehicle. Police allege Padilla then intentionally struck Maldonado with the vehicle he was driving.<\/p>\n

Officers arrested Padilla and initially charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Maldonado died on July 11, and Wylie police upgraded Padilla\u2019s charge to murder.<\/p>\n

Police have not announced a motive or released additional details about the argument. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Padilla faces an accusation, not a conviction. The law presumes him innocent unless a court finds him guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wylie police charged Rene Padilla with murder after Maximiliano Maldonado died from injuries suffered in an alleged intentional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,131180,27182,160,162,161,131179,131181,1292,131178],"class_list":["post-370336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-county","tag-maximiliano-maldonado","tag-murder-charge","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-rene-padilla","tag-vehicle-pedestrian-crash","tag-wylie","tag-wylie-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370336","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=370336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}