{"id":429923,"date":"2026-09-08T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429923\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:56:15","slug":"investigation-into-fatal-crash-at-13500-gulf-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429923\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into Fatal Crash at 13500 Gulf Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Houston Police Department<\/p>\n<p>POLICE Department<br \/>\nInvestigation into Fatal Crash at 13500 Gulf Freeway<\/p>\n<p>September 8, 2026 &#8211; Houston police are  investigating the fatal auto-pedestrian crash that occurred at 13500 Gulf  Freeway\u00a0(South Interstate Highway 45) about 2:35 a.m. on September 6.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased male is identified as Cristian Chicas Gongora, 26.<\/p>\n<p>HPD Vehicular Crimes Division Sergeant G. Garcia and Officer J. Rincon  reported:<\/p>\n<p>The victim was passenger in a vehicle traveling northbound at the above address  when a physical altercation occurred between the male and another passenger.  The male then proceeded to exit the vehicle while it was still in motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a witness, after the male fell onto the main lanes a white  Chevrolet Camaro struck him.\u00a0The driver of the Camaro did not stop to  provide assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced the male deceased a the  scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the driver or the vehicle in this case is urged to  contact the HPD Hit and Run Unit at 713-247-4065\u00a0or speak anonymously to  Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>ECR\/SOA\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09-8-26<br \/>Inc. #112960726-L <\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact a public information officer at 713-308-3200.\n  <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/police\/keep_houston_safe\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/khs_web2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"65\" alt=\"Keep Houston Safe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Police Department POLICE Department Investigation into Fatal Crash at 13500 Gulf Freeway September 8, 2026 &#8211; Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-429923","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\/429923","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=429923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}