The Clarks Mills man charged in a crash Wednesday, Aug. 12, that killed an Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District teacher and a Butler man, lost his wife and two children in April in a Stoneboro house fire.

Aric Abrams, 47, was driving under the influence when he sideswiped the vehicle of Sandra Marwick, 68, which led her to strike the vehicle of Luke Mulford, 29, on Sandy Lake Grove City Road in Worth Township, Mercer County, police said.

Marwick and Mulford were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said Abrams refused a blood test, but said he drank alcohol the previous night and had used cocaine within the last two days.

Abrams was charged with two felony counts each of homicide by vehicle while DUI and homicide by vehicle, misdemeanor DUI and four summary traffic violations. He’s being held in Mercer County Jail on $100,000 bail.

Abrams’ wife and two children died April 16 in a Stoneboro house fire. In the fire, Malinda Abrams, 48, Amelia Abrams, 16, and Leroy Abrams, 12, were discovered dead in a Walnut Street home after the fire was out.

Libonati said at the time all three deaths were accidental and caused by smoke inhalation due to the fire. There was nothing to suggest foul play, he said.