FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The driver of a car that crashed and killed three E.E. Smith High School football players has been arrested, Fayetteville Police said Wednesday night.

Dymond Nekiya Monroe, 21, was taken into custody on Wednesday, police said. She was driving when the crash happened Oct. 8 in the 2700 block of Rosehill Road, shortly after football practice.

Police said previously that Monroe and her 19-year-old sister Destini Genwright were on their way to their younger brother's 18th birthday party, with several E.E. Smith football players riding in their cars. Nicholas Williams, 17, Trevor Merritt, 17, and Jai'hyon Elliott, 18, all died in the crash.

Fayetteville Police Department

Investigators said they believed the sisters were racing in separate vehicles.

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