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HOUSTON<\/strong> – A suspect is facing murder charges for allegedly causing a deadly, fiery crash in Houston’s Midtown area.<\/p>\n Houston Midtown: Deadly crash on Smith, Elgin Streets <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The incident started shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of Smith Street<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a Houston Police sergeant at the scene, a Harris County constable deputy saw a Ford F-150 crash into two vehicles and speed off.<\/p>\n The deputy went after the F-150 as it sped down Smith Street, allegedly hitting other vehicles in the process.<\/p>\n When the vehicle got to Smith and Elgin Streets<\/a>, the suspect allegedly ran another light, then T-boned a Lexus that was going east on Elgin.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Lexus spun out, crashed into a building, and caught fire. Both people who were in the Lexus died at the scene.<\/p>\n The HPD sergeant said the suspect smelled of alcohol and was slurring his words when he was taken into custody. He was evaluated for a possible DWI.<\/p>\n A passenger in the suspect’s vehicle was taken to a hospital for her injuries. She is expected to recover, and she is not facing charges at this time.<\/p>\n The Harris County District Attorney’s Office is looking into charging the suspect with murder, according to the HPD sergeant.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n It hasn’t been confirmed if the suspect was intoxicated.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> OnScene and Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Midtown<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A suspect is facing murder charges for allegedly causing a deadly, fiery crash in Houston’s Midtown…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,4345,17833,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114157","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-midtown","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961715480458527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}