{"id":117288,"date":"2025-08-04T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117288\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:20:12","slug":"driver-wanted-in-deadly-dallas-hit-and-run-that-killed-23-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117288\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver wanted in deadly Dallas hit-and-run that killed 23-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0A6582850A8CA03062C44F75A84ACB07.jpg\" alt=\"23-year-old dies in Dallas hit-and-run, driver wanted\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Family and friends of a 23-year-old man hit and killed by a car after walking home from a concert are pleading for that driver to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">So far, Dallas police have not made any arrests in the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Hit-and-run  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">This photo is the last one ever taken of 23-year-old Seth Rains. The Texas Tech graduate was with his friends at a concert in Dallas on the night of July 26.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/p-amelia-design-district-fatal-hit-and-run-9p_00.00.10.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;I remember leaving the concert and feeling on top of the world, like nothing could touch us,&#8221; said Seth Rains&#8217; best friend, Landen Ashby.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Landen Ashby remembers the group walking back to the hotel around 2:40 a.m. and crossing the street at the intersection of Turtle Creek Boulevard and Market Center, when a car hit his best friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">\u00a0&#8220;When I went up to him, he was in the street. Immediately, the severity clicked for me and I knew he was in critical condition, and we needed help now,&#8221; said Ashby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Ashby called 911 while another friend chased the car.\u00a0Ashby says the group tried to get the driver to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The car made a U-turn back to the scene and a friend spoke to the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;My friend was kind of talking to him, and he rolled down the window and was just kind of like, \u2018What happened, what happened? I don\u2019t really know what happened.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The group allegedly yelled that the driver hit their friend and that&#8217;s when the driver sped off.<\/p>\n<p> Remembering Seth Rains <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Ashby says they gave Dallas police all the information they could remember, but so far, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Rains died at the hospital before his parents got there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;There are no winners in this game at all. It\u2019s just sadness,&#8221; said Clint Rains, Seth\u2019s father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Clint and Cyndi Rains describe their son as kind, hardworking, and selfless.\u00a0He was deeply loved by his friends, who will always remember his contagious laugh and bright light.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">All they want is for the driver to do the right thing and turn themselves in.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">\u00a0&#8220;He had an amazing soul and if anyone deserved a full life, it was Seth,&#8221; said Harrison Chrane, Seth\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Anyone with information regarding this ongoing investigation is asked to contact the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is provided by the Dallas Police Department and interviews conducted by FOX 4&#8217;s Amelia Jones.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Family and friends of a 23-year-old man hit and killed by a car after walking home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,14842,50,12632,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-117288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968580840288221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117288","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=117288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}