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Pierce County prosecutors have charged a man with vehicular homicide for a crash that killed a woman in Spanaway. ReneMichael Navarro, 26, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The accident happened the evening of March 11 in the 2100 block of state Route 7. A sheriff’s deputy happened upon the scene and noticed a crowd standing around a woman lying on the ground in front of a Datsun pickup truck. The woman, who was later identified as 25-year-old Jade Nicole Aubrey-Peterson, was taken to Tacoma General Hospital. She never regained consciousness, records show.