Charges laid in 2022 Burnaby crash that left 2 teens dead
Posted July 11, 2023 10:40 am.
Last Updated July 11, 2023 10:48 am.
Charges have been laid in connection with a deadly crash that claimed the lives of two teens in Metro Vancouver last summer.
The Metro Vancouver Transit Police (MVTP) says on July 26, officers were headed back to New Westminster just after 11 p.m. when they tried to to pull over a vehicle that was “being driven erratically.”
According to police, the car didn’t stop and is said to have hit another vehicle in the area of 10th Avenue and Sixth Street along the Burnaby-New West border a short time later.
The driver and passenger reportedly got out of the suspect vehicle and ran from officer, though they were eventually found and arrested.
Two teens were killed after the vehicle they were in was hit in the area of 10 Avenue and Sixth Street in Burnaby on July 26, 2022. (CityNews Image)
Investigators say bystanders and police tried to save the two teens, who were in the vehicle that was hit. The 18-year-old from Vancouver and 17-year-old from Burnaby succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
Police say 27-year-old Cory Robert Ulmer Brown is charged with two counts of criminal negligence causing death, one count of driving while disqualified, and one count of flight from police.
The MVTP says Brown is currently in custody on unrelated charges. It notes he was placed on a 24-hour house arrest after the 2022 incident.
He is due back in court on July 19.
