Crime & Safety
Driver In Fatal Street-Racing Crash Charged With Vehicular Homicide
A Silver Spring driver was arrested recently on criminal charges tied to a 2023 fatal street-racing crash in Rockville, police said.
SILVER SPRING, MD — A Silver Spring man accused of street racing in Rockville has been indicted on vehicular homicide and other criminal charges after another died in a crash, authorities said Tuesday.
A Montgomery County grand jury indicted Aaron Givens, 33, on negligent homicide by vehicle, criminally negligent manslaughter by vehicle and driving a vehicle in a race/speed contest. Givens turned himself in to Montgomery County Police on March 4 after an arrest warrant was issued.
About 2:23 p.m. on Jan. 17, 2023, police and Montgomery County Fire Rescue were called to the area of West Gude Drive and Watkins Pond Boulevard in Rockville for a crash involving a 2018 Infiniti Q50 driven by Romario Coke, 28, of Silver Spring.
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Police said Coke was driving eastbound on West Gude Drive at a high rate of speed when he lost control of his car and it struck a tree in the center median. Coke was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators learned Coke was racing with a Ram 1500 TRX pickup driven by Givens, leading to the indictment.
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Givens was released on an unsecured personal bond.
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