Crystal De Luna, 19, died after a four-vehicle collision that led police to arrest a pickup driver on an intoxication manslaughter charge.
CROSS ROADS, Texas — A 19-year-old college student was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 380 after police said a pickup crossed traffic lanes and struck several vehicles, leading to the arrest of its driver on an intoxication manslaughter charge.
Crystal Brianna De Luna died after the July 26 collision at the intersection of U.S. 380 and U.S. Highway 377 in Cross Roads. Police said officers responded at about 9:50 p.m. to a crash involving four vehicles. Emergency crews took De Luna, who was critically injured, to Medical City Denton, where she was pronounced dead. Several other people were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Investigators arrested Jonathan Samuel Moses, 33, of Pilot Point. Police allege Moses was driving a Ram pickup that traveled across the eastbound and westbound lanes of U.S. 380, struck multiple vehicles and eventually left the roadway. He has been charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle and unlawfully carrying a weapon. The charges are allegations, and the case has not been resolved in court.
An arrest affidavit says officers observed signs they believed indicated Moses was intoxicated, including slurred speech, bloodshot and watery eyes and problems maintaining his balance. According to the affidavit, Moses told officers he had consumed two margaritas at a restaurant in Denton about 20 minutes before the crash and was traveling toward Pilot Point. Investigators also conducted field sobriety tests.
Police later obtained a warrant for a blood sample, according to reporting based on the affidavit. Authorities had not publicly released the results of that testing in the reports reviewed for this story. Investigators also reported finding open alcoholic beverage containers in the pickup and a handgun behind the driver’s seat.
De Luna’s mother, Vanessa Ramirez, said her daughter had been out with her boyfriend that night. Ramirez said she checked her daughter’s location before going to bed and saw that De Luna was on Highway 380, leaving her to believe she was close to home. Ramirez later woke to a missed call and learned her daughter had died.
“My heart is broken because I don’t have her, and I know that she will not come back,” Ramirez told FOX 4. “She was my baby, my best friend. She was 19.”
De Luna had been preparing to enter her second year of college. Her death turned what her family expected to be the closing weeks of summer into a criminal investigation and a period of mourning. Ramirez has publicly called for accountability in her daughter’s death while questioning how someone with earlier impaired-driving convictions was again accused of driving while intoxicated.
The arrest affidavit lists four previous impaired-driving convictions for Moses: one in Maine in 2018 and three in New Hampshire in 2018, 2022 and 2024. Those convictions are separate from the Texas allegations stemming from the July crash. The latest reporting reviewed for this story said Moses remained in the Denton County Jail on July 28 with bond set at $101,000; his custody status as of Aug. 9 was not independently confirmed.
The Cross Roads crash remains under investigation. Authorities have not publicly released a final crash reconstruction or the reported blood-test results, and the criminal charges against Moses remain allegations unless proved in court.
Author note: Last updated August 9, 2026.