{"id":392803,"date":"2026-07-31T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:45:15","slug":"man-arrested-after-running-over-killing-teen-with-car-in-west-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392803\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after running over, killing teen with car in West Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> an 18-year-old after he allegedly ran over a teenager in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/aclk?sa=L&amp;pf=1&amp;ai=DChsSEwjW36jAqfuVAxVIN9QBHeRtFl0YACICCAEQABoCb2E&amp;co=1&amp;ase=2&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw7KvTBhA6EiwAWnutYT04V7K6ETuS5W105DTx4UpsDjHPp0ydpju3W1eQqsc0WzIV1Su-ShoCO84QAvD_BwE&amp;cid=CAASZeRoi4IRuaFifRs3lLEAJ6Gqu6LaLF2-iLaQYaRiV5tv6yJ0THD5Erzgc-adGtenO5V0ITxpf6T9oMq2Sc-m7aTDlo9fF5hB-6b-gzB1tylZW7U2FYVP2ACIXhwarkazvamqTvTo&amp;cce=2&amp;category=acrcp_v1_32&amp;sig=AOD64_1ItLqqm-DQDhXHj4ijM4PTt4GFkw&amp;q&amp;nis=4&amp;adurl=https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/west-dallas\/?utm_source%3Dpaid_marketing%26utm_medium%3Dgoogle%26utm_campaign%3Dcontent_acquisition%26gad_source%3D1%26gad_campaignid%3D23423742462%26gbraid%3D0AAAAADjVYgHS248LgFpw-Tn4y0B4APHlI%26gclid%3DCjwKCAjw7KvTBhA6EiwAWnutYT04V7K6ETuS5W105DTx4UpsDjHPp0ydpju3W1eQqsc0WzIV1Su-ShoCO84QAvD_BwE&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiL9J_AqfuVAxX8kmoFHQEKMcQQ0Qx6BAgWEAE\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Dallas<\/a> with a vehicle and killed him last Sunday following a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a shooting about 3:36 a.m. in the 300 block of Singleton Boulevard, according to a Thursday statement.<\/p>\n<p>Once there, investigators determined a man struck Garyk Rodriguez-Escobar, 17, with a vehicle after a fight between him and multiple others.<\/p>\n<p>Police said\u00a0Rodriguez-Escobar, 17, was transported to the hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old was booked into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-county\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas County<\/a> jail on July 29 and faces a charge of aggravated assault with a weapon causing brain injury or paralysis, according to jail records. As\u00a0of Thursday,\u00a0his bail is set at $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the charge is currently being upgraded to murder. The facts and circumstances of the killing\u00a0remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone with information to contact detective\u00a0Jelisa\u00a0Reed at 469-597-9332 or jelisa.reed@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested an 18-year-old after he allegedly ran over a teenager in West Dallas with a vehicle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-392803","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\/392803","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=392803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}