{"id":385862,"date":"2026-07-25T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:05:11","slug":"man-found-guilty-in-crash-that-killed-harris-county-deputy-constable-her-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385862\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty in crash that killed Harris County deputy constable, her child"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOUSTON, Texas – A man has been found guilty of a crash that killed a Harris County deputy constable and her young daughter in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Man found guilty in death of Katherine Hutson <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Omar Jose Alvarado, 24, was found guilty on two counts of intoxication manslaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the charges was manslaughter of a peace officer for killing Harris County Precinct 5 deputy constable Katherine Hutson. The other was for the death of Hutson’s eight-year-old daughter, Kacey.<\/p>\n

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What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

Alvarado’s sentencing has not been set at this time.<\/p>\n

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The backstory:<\/p>\n

The crash happened in November 2024 on the I-10 Katy Freeway.<\/p>\n

Constable Hutson had been working an off-duty traffic control job for a construction crew at the time of the crash. She was inside her white Chevrolet Impala with its emergency light bar equipment on, positioned behind the construction crew for safety. Kacey was in the passenger seat of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, Alvarado was driving a gray Mazda 3 westbound on the freeway when he struck the Impala from behind. The impact caused a fiery explosion, killing both Hutson and her daughter at the scene. A 25-year-old female passenger in Alvarado\u2019s vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n

The Source: FOX 26 was present when Alvarado’s verdict was read. This report also includes information from previous FOX 26 reporting.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas – A man has been found guilty of a crash that killed a Harris County deputy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-385862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385862","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=385862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}