Prosecutors have filed charges against the driver of a car that crashed and killed three E.E. Smith high school football players, as well as another motorist that the charges suggest was racing that car before the wreck, authorities announced.

The Fayetteville Police Department announced Oct. 21 that Dymond Nekiya Monroe, 21, of Fayetteville, is charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Jai'Hyon Lamont Elliott , 18, Nicholas Kole Williams , 17, and Trevor Jayshawn Merritt , 17. The students were passengers in a Honda Civic that Monroe was driving when the Civic ran off Rosehill Road and struck a telephone pole Oct. 8. All three died at the scene.

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