{"id":1262434,"date":"2023-09-26T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262434"},"modified":"2023-09-28T04:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:03:31","slug":"gilmer-man-charged-in-fatal-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262434","title":{"rendered":"Gilmer man charged in fatal wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1262435\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr-175x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr-175x147.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr-200x168.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr.png 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>WOOD COUNTY &#8212; A Gilmer man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in connection to a wreck that killed one of his passengers and injured another. According to our news partner KETK, the preliminary report from DPS indicated Leopoldo Guerrero, Jr., 24, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet 1500 east on State Highway 154, 13.3 miles west of Gilmer on Sept. 18 at 7:00 a.m. DPS said he veered off the roadway to the north and the truck overturned. 34-year-old Diana M. Valenzuela from Longview was taken to a Quitman hospital where she died a few hours later. A 25-year-old passenger was taken to a Tyler hospital with incapacitating injuries. After an investigation, Guerrero Jr. was charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault.<!--more--> Guerrero Jr. was booked into the Wood County Jail on Sept. 18 for the charges with a combined $150,00 bond and was released the next day. The DPS preliminary report states that none of the three people in the car were wearing seatbelts at the time of the wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOD COUNTY &#8212; A Gilmer man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in connection to a wreck that killed one of his passengers and injured another. According to our news partner KETK, the preliminary report from DPS indicated Leopoldo Guerrero, Jr., 24, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet 1500 east on State Highway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gilmer man charged in fatal wreck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1262438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr-175x147.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gilmer man charged in fatal wreck","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 11:59:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/GuerrerroJr-175x147.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gilmer man charged in fatal wreck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262440,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262434\/revisions\/1262440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}