{"id":386583,"date":"2026-07-25T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:26:13","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-seth-rains-in-heaven-texas-rangers-honor-texas-tech-graduate-killed-in-dallas-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386583\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Happy Anniversary to Seth Rains in Heaven&#8217; | Texas Rangers honor Texas Tech graduate killed in Dallas hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Rains was attending a concert on the night of July 26, 2025 when, while walking from the venue to his hotel, he was struck by a speeding car, documents say.<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 One year since the tragic death of Texas Tech graduate Seth Rains, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Texas Rangers<\/a> honored him Friday night in the first game of a four-game series against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Rangers displayed the message &#8220;Happy Anniversary to Seth Rains in Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b947beab-c548-4ddf-83c7-261a3ea2526a_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWho is Seth Rains?                    <\/p>\n<p>Rains was a 23-year-old Texas Tech graduate who died on July 27, 2025 after being hit in the early morning hours of July 26, 2025 at the intersection of Turtle Creek Boulevard and Market Center Boulevard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/traffic\/dallas-texas-pedestrian-killed-hit-and-run\/287-ec9bbcb7-dc78-4b88-afb6-d8c741feb571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WFAA previously reported<\/a>. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/assist-with-funeral-arrangements-for-loved-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">GoFundMe page<\/a> created by Rains&#8217; family at the time, he was attending a concert the night before and was walking back to his hotel when he was hit.<\/p>\n<p>Rains graduated from Mansfield Summit High School in 2020 and Texas Tech University in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just over two weeks later, Dallas police arrested Jose Hernandez De Leon in connection with the crash. He was charged with collision involving death, a second-degree felony. In January 2026, Seth&#8217;s mother, Cyndi, told WFAA three new warrants had been filed, which included charges of manslaughter and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ba854c4e-88f7-4bb9-abd0-637376e409a5_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The newly-filed charging documents outlined how investigators used vehicle data, surveillance video, and crash reconstruction to determine De Leon was traveling at a high rate of speed just before the crash. According to police, the data showed De Leon was driving more than double the posted 35-mile-per-hour speed limit when Rains was struck in a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>De Leon turned himself in on the new charges on Jan. 13 and bonded out the next day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/dallas-county\/new-charges-allege-driver-killed-texas-tech-graduate-was-going-twice-speed-limit\/287-eee7359c-d8a6-4c73-a2fc-08ab420659f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WFAA reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Rains was attending a concert on the night of July 26, 2025 when, while walking from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-386583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386583","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=386583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}