{"id":392669,"date":"2026-07-30T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:40:11","slug":"5000-reward-offered-in-houston-westheimer-hit-and-run-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392669\/","title":{"rendered":"$5,000 reward offered in Houston Westheimer hit-and-run death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crime Stoppers and the Houston Police Department are asking the public to help identify a driver sought in connection with the death of Eva Gonzalez Frederick on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez was first struck while crossing\u00a0Westheimer Road in the 7800 block about 11 p.m., according to a Crime Stoppers news release. The first driver stopped and cooperated with investigators, but a second driver struck her while she was lying in the road and fled. Investigators are asking witnesses to help identify that driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the location and arrest of the\u00a0driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez was pronounced dead\u00a0at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Gonzalez family is asking the community to help identify the driver, according to Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477), submitting it online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.~~crime-stoppers.org\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crime-stoppers.org<\/a> or using the Crime Stoppers mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Tipsters who contact Crime Stoppers directly remain anonymous and may be eligible for the reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime Stoppers and the Houston Police Department are asking the public to help identify a driver sought in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-392669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392669","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=392669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}