Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024
Time: 1:40am
Location: 2900 SPID
Offense: Accident Involving Injury or Death
Case number: 2403020010

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 1:40am, officers were dispatched to the 2900 block of S. Padre Island Drive in reference to a major traffic accident.

Officers arrived and located a passenger car that had struck a pilar of a building. They located a 27-year-old deceased female driver and a 23-year-old male passenger with injuries in the vehicle. CCFD had to extricate the male passenger then transported him to a local hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators with the Traffic Section arrived on scene and conducted their investigation. They found that an unknown dark-colored vehicle struck the passenger car while traveling eastbound on State Highway 358, causing the passenger car to veer off the highway and strike the pilar of the business. The unknown vehicle fled the scene, last seen driving eastbound on SH 358.

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 1:14pm, officers were dispatched to the area of Weber/Tripoli in reference to a citizen observing a vehicle with heavy front-end damage parked in a parking lot. Officers were able to determine that the vehicle was the suspect vehicle that had been involved in the hit and run fatality accident that occurred during the overnight hours.

Traffic Investigators continued their investigation and obtained a warrant for 31-year-old Garner Burford for Accident Involving Injury or Death, bond $75,000. Burford was taken into custody, medically cleared at a local hospital, and transported to the City Detention Center for booking.