Biopharmaceutical CEO, UNC employee identified as two killed in car wreck
Lisa Marie Yañez, 50, of Carrboro was driving the car when it hit a tree just before 9:40 p.m. on West Barbee Chapel Road near Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill police reported Wednesday afternoon.
Police and Chapel Hill Fire Department crews were on the scene within minutes, a witness told The News & Observer by phone Wednesday.
Yañez and her passenger, Vaughn Avery Booker, 40, of Durham, died at the scene, police said in a news release.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing and awaiting a toxicology report from the medical examiner, Assistant Chief Josh Mecimore said Friday.
UNC-Chapel Hill officials confirmed Thursday that Booker was a technology support specialist in the university’s Information Technology Services division.
He was hired as a temporary employee in 2003, a spokeswoman said, and was hired full time in 2006.
Booker’s LinkedIn profile showed that he also graduated from UNC in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree.
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