The 24-year-old Alton, Texas, resident whose vehicle struck and killed a Kendall County deputy in the summer of 2019 pleaded guilty to a Class B misdemeanor earlier this week, ending the two-year-long court process and resolving the incident that shook the county and the local law enforcement community.
Jonathan Kevin Sanchez, who was 21 years old when his vehicle struck two Kendall County deputies and a pedestrian in early July 2019, pleaded guilty to the Class B misdemeanor of failure to vacate a lane when passing an emergency vehicle with bodily injury caused. He was placed on pretrial intervention probation, and the case will be dismissed if he successfully completes the program, according to information form the Kendall County District Attorney’s Office.
Two deputies were conducting a traffic stop near the westbound 534 milepost on Interstate 10 on July 2, 2019, when Sanchez fell asleep at the wheel, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety crash report. Sanchez’s vehicle struck the deputies’ vehicle, which then hit Deputy Jorge Munoz and the person being stopped, Jordan Dunagin. Both Dunagin and Munoz were taken to a hospital for injuries.
