{"id":80676,"date":"2025-12-08T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:10:11","slug":"houston-suspect-accused-in-deadly-crash-carjackings-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80676\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston suspect accused in deadly crash, carjackings charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/k2e69rkqlqb49xb5.jpg\" alt=\"Suspect arrested in after deadly Houston crash, multiple carjackings\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A suspect is facing several charges after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/park-place-gulf-freeway-houston-crash-shooting-12-5-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">deadly crash and a series of carjackings<\/a> in Houston on Friday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>   Suspect facing multiple charges <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jason-arvin-velasquez.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Jason Arvin Velasquez (Photo: Houston Police Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Police say Jason Arvin Velasquez, 30, is charged with intoxication manslaughter, failure to stop and render aid causing death and multiple counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The woman who died in the crash was identified as 42-year-old Jessica Daughtery.<\/p>\n<p> How it unfolded <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">According to police, Velasquez was driving northbound on the I-45 Gulf Freeway on Friday morning when he crashed into the back of a Nissan Altima. The driver of the Altima, Daughtery, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Police say Velasquez got out of his vehicle with a gun, and stole a vehicle from someone at the scene. He allegedly kept driving on the Gulf Freeway until the stolen vehicle became inoperable, and police say he then stole a second car at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Police say Harris County Pct. 1 deputy constables were able to arrest him a short time later when he attempted to steal a third vehicle at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Witnesses reported that Velasquez had been involved in several minor crashes and had driven the wrong way on the freeway before the deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department and previous FOX 26 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A suspect is facing several charges after a deadly crash and a series of carjackings in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-80676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676","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=80676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}