{"id":393221,"date":"2026-07-31T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:22:50","slug":"la-vernia-woman-accused-of-intentionally-hitting-pedestrian-in-hit-and-run-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393221\/","title":{"rendered":"La Vernia woman accused of intentionally hitting pedestrian in hit-and-run case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA VERNIA, Texas \u2014 A La Vernia woman was arrested in San Antonio after investigators say she intentionally hit another person with her vehicle following an argument, then left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Lynette Gunter, 52, was taken into custody Wednesday in Bexar County by the U.S. Marshals Service on felony warrants issued by the Wilson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began July 11 when deputies were called out to Champions Boulevard near Farm-to-Market 539 in La Vernia after reports that a vehicle had struck a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the driver left before anyone could stop her. As they interviewed witnesses and gathered evidence, they identified Gunter as the driver of a white Jeep Rubicon involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the evidence showed Gunter intentionally struck the victim with her vehicle after the two had argued.<\/p>\n<p>She is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, collision involving serious bodily injury and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly three weeks, authorities located Gunter in San Antonio, where she was arrested without incident with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service.<\/p>\n<p>Information about the victim&#8217;s condition has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA VERNIA, Texas \u2014 A La Vernia woman was arrested in San Antonio after investigators say she intentionally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-393221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393221","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=393221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}