BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – A San Antonio man was indicted late last month after a passenger in his vehicle was killed in a Northwest Side crash nearly two full years ago.
According to Bexar County jail records, San Antonio police took Walter Allen Gutierrez, 71, into custody on Thursday. He has been accused of intoxication manslaughter — a second-degree felony — related to a deadly July 3, 2024, crash in the 7800 block of Grissom Road near Misty Way Street.
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KSAT received a copy of Gutierrez’s March 26 intoxication manslaughter indictment on Friday. The indictment identified Marissa Sifuentes as the person who died in the crash.
According to an SAPD preliminary report from July 3, 2024, Gutierrez (the driver) and Sifuentes (the passenger) were traveling in a 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan. Gutierrez attempted to make a left turn into a private parking lot when a Ford F-150, which had the right of way, crashed into Sifuentes’ passenger side, authorities said.
Police said Sifuentes was thrown from the Dodge Grand Caravan’s front passenger seat to the rear passenger seat on contact. She suffered “severe” injuries to her right leg and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, the report said.
Four others, including Gutierrez, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, an SAPD spokesperson said at the time.
According to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, Sifuentes died from complications related to blunt force injuries suffered in the crash. Her death was ruled an accident.
Gutierrez’s previous arrest
On Thursday, Gutierrez was also booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on an unrelated suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI) charge, jail records indicate.
The suspicion of DWI charge, which happened in July 2023, is considered a Class B misdemeanor.
Records show Gutierrez appeared in court on April 11, 2024 — three months before the deadly crash — and pled no contest to the DWI charge. At the hearing, a judge granted him deferred adjudication.
Following Gutierrez’s intoxication manslaughter indictment and arrest, a Bexar County judge decided on Thursday to hold him in jail without bond, court documents show.
Gutierrez is scheduled to make his next court appearance in the 2023 DWI case on May 11.
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