{"id":481541,"date":"2026-10-30T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:22:13","slug":"texas-ice-agent-who-struck-fleeing-pedestrian-with-his-vehicle-faces-criminal-charges-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481541\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas ICE agent who struck fleeing pedestrian with his vehicle faces criminal charges in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KNSM5334TZCUHBVY5QEV5BRDBQ.jpg\"\/>Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during an oversight hearing about the July 7 fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, in Houston on July 24, 2026. (Jon Shapley For The Texas Tribune,  Jon Shapley For The Texas Tribune)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A Harris County grand jury indicted a federal immigration agent Friday after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/10\/13\/ice-houston-hit-pedestrian-car-criminal-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filmed on video running over a fleeing pedestrian<\/a> during an Oct. 10 vehicle pursuit in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">District Attorney Sean Teare said his office launched<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/10\/13\/ice-houston-hit-pedestrian-car-criminal-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a criminal investigation <\/a>of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent after his office reviewed footage showing an unmarked patrol vehicle striking Miguel Parra-Hernandez, 48. Teare <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/da-has-no-access-ice-driven-vehicle-hit-man-sean-teare-says\/19935715\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in an interview with KTRK-TV<\/a> that he believed the ICE agent intentionally hit Parra-Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Teare said ICE agent Mario Morales faces a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon \u2014 the agent\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Surveillance footage captured from a nearby business depicts two men getting out of a white pickup truck and running in different directions through a parking lot. The footage also shows that a black SUV pursued one of the men from behind as he ran from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">ICE said that agents were searching for a man named Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who had a deportation order, and believed that man was in the same truck as Parra-Hernandez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">But Mendoza-Cervantes\u2019s daughter later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/15\/us\/ice-pursuit-houston-dead-man.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the New York Times that<\/a> her father died nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">2026 Texas Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during an oversight hearing about the July 7 fatal shooting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1724,3647,287,27,29,293,28],"class_list":["post-481541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481541","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=481541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}