SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS) -- Two San Jose men were charged Friday with gross vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving in the death of a third motorist during a street race last month.
21-year-old Emmanuel Pourmand and 18-year-old Joseph Inocencio were both involved in the crash on October 22 that took the life of 20-year-old Alyson Snow.
San Jose police said the two were traveling at speeds from 75 to upwards of 90 miles per hour on Branham Lane between Pearl Avenue and Vistapark Drive.
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The crash tossed Snow's car into a tree on Branham Lane said prosecutor Dana Overstreeet.
"Prior to the collision, these two cars had been in a race or playing catch up with each other or whatever you might call it," Overstreet said.
Overstreet said the two are due back in court December 1; Pourmand faces a maximum prison term of nine years and Inocencio faces a max term of six years and eight months.
District attorney spokeswoman Amy Cornell said they are still looking for the public's help in the case.
"In addition to looking for anyone who might have seen this or anybody who saw any sort of speeding, reckless driving, anything of the sort," Cornell said. "We also are looking for another witness, a driver of a Mini Cooper who was at the intersection of Branham Lane and Pearl Avenue."
Snow's boyfriend, who was injured in the crash, is expected to testify in the trial.
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