{"id":454801,"date":"2026-10-03T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454801\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:56:15","slug":"man-accused-of-racing-causing-fatal-crash-downtown-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454801\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of racing, causing fatal crash downtown, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armando Gonzales Jr., 33, faces a charge of racing on a highway causing serious bodily injury<\/p>\n

\"\"SAPD Patrol Unit (KSAT)<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO \u2013 After a motorcyclist died while racing downtown earlier this week<\/a>, San Antonio police arrested the other driver involved in the crash.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the San Antonio Police Department identified the driver as Armando Gonzales Jr., 33. Records show he was arrested and charged with racing on a highway causing serious bodily injury, which is considered a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n

He was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Police responded to the crash Monday evening at the intersection of North Santa Rosa and West Commerce Street. <\/p>\n

Police said the motorcyclist, Javier Romayor, 40, lost control during the race. He was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Gonzales was nowhere to be found as police were at the scene, according to an SAPD preliminary report. However, police eventually found and arrested Gonzales on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorSamuel Rocha IV headshot\"\"Samuel Rocha IV<\/a><\/p>\n

Samuel Rocha joined KSAT as a Newsroom Trainee in the spring of 2026. He is a San Antonio native and a graduate of San Antonio College and Texas A&M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armando Gonzales Jr., 33, faces a charge of racing on a highway causing serious bodily injury SAPD Patrol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[268,993,1124,82,84,83,632],"class_list":["post-454801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-crash","tag-downtown","tag-racing","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sapd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454801","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=454801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}