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Driver Who Hit Villas Family’s Car Charged With Vehicular Homicide

Alex-Andre Shepherd with her two daughters, Aubree, 16, and Everleigh, 6. The three are still recovering from two accidents within about nine hours.

By Christopher South

The driver who rear-ended a car carrying five members of a Villas family, leading to the subsequent death of one of them, is now facing up to 10 years in state prison after being charged with vehicular homicide.

Joseph E. Orozco, 22, of Rio Grande, was charged Jan. 21 in Maurice River Municipal Court with one count of vehicular homicide and four counts of assault by auto after he struck the rear of a vehicle driven by Joseph Lowry of Villas on Oct. 30, 2024. Lowry later died while in rehabilitative care.

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Christopher South is a reporter for the Cape May County Herald.

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