Police charged Gerald J. White, 37, of Pittsburgh with two counts of death by auto and two counts of assault by auto, in the death of Lindsay Weakland, 18, and Timothy Ogden, 34.
After two people were killed this weekend in Wildwood, N.J., when a driver struck a car and then hit two pedestrians during an unsanctioned drag racing rally known as H2Oi, the mayor said his first order of business Monday morning would be a call to his counterpart in Ocean City, Md.
It was there during a 2019 H2Oi event that the town was “under siege,” according to its mayor at the time. In 2020, the group’s last visit, Ocean City police issued more than 3,500 citations and impounded and towed over 350 cars throughout that rally.
“I can’t stop somebody from coming over the bridge with a car, we have to have just cause,” said Wildwood’s Mayor Pete Byron. “So [Ocean City’s officials] must have come up with some kind of solution on the legal end to be able to discourage them from coming.”
In Wildwood, police charged Gerald J. White, 37, of Pittsburgh with two counts of death by auto and two counts of assault by auto, in the death of Lindsay Weakland, 18, of Carlisle, Pa., and Timothy Ogden, 34, of Clayton, N.J., as well as other charges related to White’s attempt to flee the scene, according to Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto.