FULTON COUNTY, GA. (THECOUNT) — Bernard Yarbrough has been identified as the 22-year-old charged in the deaths of an Uber driver and his passenger during a crash Thursday while eluding police in Fulton County, Georgia.
Yarbrough has been charged with 2 counts of vehicular homicide, fleeing/eluding police, reckless driving and a headlight violation in an early Thursday morning crash that killed Uber driver, 39-year-old Guillermo Bracho Barrios and his passenger 27-year-old Gemini Jerome Jackson.
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According to officials, police were attempting to conduct a traffic stop on a Toyota Rav 4 when the driver refused to stop. The Toyota then made contact with a Mitsubishi Outlander near Northside Drive Northwest and 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta Thursday around 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
The three passengers in the backseat of the Outlander were also injured.
Yarbrough was uninjured in the crash.
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating the incident.
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Geo quick facts: Fulton County is located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, making it the state’s most-populous county and its only one with over 1 million inhabitants. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital – Wikipedia.