{"id":38349,"date":"2025-11-06T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38349\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:04:06","slug":"2-charged-in-street-racing-crash-that-kills-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38349\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged in street racing crash that kills 14-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two young men were arrested and charged with the death of a 14-year-old boy after a hit-and-run crash on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD) said they received a call of a crash at 8:08 p.m. at the 1600 block of North Lexington Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived at the scene, they found the 14-year-old receiving medical aid from private EMS.<\/p>\n<p>He died of his injuries at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>After interviewing witnesses, police said the investigation led to the arrest of 19-year-old Ricardo Licea and 18-year-old Jesus Rodriguez after driving in separate vehicles, racing down Lexington Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>Both Licea and Rodriguez turned around southbound and continued racing down the street when one of the vehicles struck the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Both are charged with Racing Causing Death (2nd degree felony).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/two-charged-in-street-racing-crash-after-killing-juvenile\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two young men were arrested and charged with the death of a 14-year-old boy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","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=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}