Nearly seven months after two spectators, including a Columbia woman, were killed at an alleged street race in Baltimore County, a 26-year-old from Pikesville has been charged in the case.

Donneil Raeburn, 26, of the 4500 block of Dresden Road, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter and various other charges related to the June 21 incident.

Mary-Kathryn Michele Abernathy, 21, of Columbia, and boyfriend Jonathan Robert Henderson, 20, of La Plata, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Woodlawn, near the park-and-ride lot, police said.

The collision occurred shortly after 3 a.m., when a large group of cars was stopped along the right shoulder of westbound I-70. A number of occupants of the vehicles had left their cars and were standing along the shoulder when police said a westbound 2009 Chevrolet Impala driven by Raeburn went out of control and struck the rear of a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier owned by Paul Duffy, 22, of Elkridge.

Duffy was hit while standing next to his vehicle, police said. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated for his injuries and released.

The force of the collision caused the Cavalier to hit the rear of a 1995 Acura Integra owned by Henderson. Henderson and Abernathy were standing near the Acura, police said.

Witnesses at the scene told police they had gathered in the area to watch drag racing when someone saw a Baltimore County police vehicle traveling eastbound on I-70. As the police vehicle approached the area, the onlookers had begun to return to their vehicles and disperse when the crash occurred.

Raeburn was apprehended by members of the Maryland State Police Fugitive Apprehension Team at his residence on Jan. 17. He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $100,000 bond. 

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user belovedcartoonmouse says...

This just in: Racing cars is dangerous.

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