One driver is in custody and a second is still being hunted after a 71-year-old bicyclist was struck by two separate vehicles and left dead on Route 73 in Voorhees Township, Camden County, in the early hours of Saturday, October 24 — and prosecutors say the man now charged tried to hide what he had done by covering his car and having its windshield replaced. Aaron K. Tart Jr., 24, of Atco, New Jersey, was arrested on Friday, October 30, and charged in the death of Maksudur Rahman, 71, of Berlin Township, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Voorhees Police Chief April Herrington announced. Tart was charged on Thursday and taken into custody in Deptford on Friday by the U.S. Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, Camden Division; the gray Ford Fusion he is accused of driving was recovered at the place where he was arrested.
What happened on Route 73 that night
At about 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, October 24, officers from the Voorhees Township Police Department responded to the 100 block of North Route 73 for a motor vehicle collision involving a bicyclist. They found Rahman lying unresponsive in the roadway, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Route 73 is one of South Jersey's main highway corridors, running through Voorhees and Berlin Township in Camden County — a road that carries fast through-traffic even in the small hours, and one on which a person on a bicycle at 1:15 in the morning is in about as exposed a position as a road user can be.
Two vehicles struck him. Both drove away.
As the Camden County Prosecutor's Office Crash Response Investigation Team and Voorhees police worked the case, they determined that two separate vehicles had struck Rahman and that both fled the scene. One was identified as a gray Ford Fusion with New Jersey registration — in the first public appeal on October 27, investigators described it more precisely as a dark gray or black Ford Fusion from the 2017 to 2020 model years. The second vehicle is suspected to be a dark-colored midsize SUV, possibly a Honda Pilot. That second driver has still not been identified, and finding that driver is now the open half of this case.
Source: Townsquare Media (WFPG), Oct. 27, 2026 — the earlier appeal for the two drivers
Covered the car, replaced the windshield, prosecutors say
Detectives determined that Tart was driving the Ford Fusion when it struck Rahman. What prosecutors allege he did next is the basis of the fourth-degree tampering-with-evidence charge: investigators say Tart covered the vehicle after the crash and had its windshield replaced. In a hit-and-run investigation, a damaged windshield is often the single most telling piece of physical evidence on a car — it is where the impact with a person on foot or on a bicycle frequently registers — and replacing it before police find the car goes directly to whether a driver was trying to make the evidence disappear. Tart is presumed innocent, and these are allegations in a prosecutor's announcement, not findings of a court.
The charges, degree by degree
Tart faces three counts: second-degree leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in death; third-degree endangering an injured victim; and fourth-degree tampering with evidence. The first and most serious charge is not about the collision itself but about leaving it — New Jersey law treats fleeing a crash in which someone dies as a second-degree crime, the same broad band of seriousness as offences that, on conviction, carry a potential state prison term measured in years. The endangering charge addresses leaving an injured person behind; the tampering charge addresses the alleged cover-up of the car. He was remanded to the Camden County Correctional Facility pending a detention hearing, at which a judge will decide the conditions under which he waits for the case to proceed.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer reporting, via EuropeSays, Oct. 30, 2026
The prosecutor's announcement and every report of it carry the same reminder, and it applies with full force here: the charges against Aaron K. Tart Jr. are accusations, and he is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The second driver has not been identified, let alone charged.
Six days from an anonymous appeal to an arrest in Deptford
The timeline shows how a fatal hit-and-run case is actually built. On the night itself, police had a dead man, a dark highway and no drivers. By Tuesday, October 27, the prosecutor's office was publicly appealing for help, with descriptions of both vehicles — a 2017–2020 dark Ford Fusion and a dark midsize SUV. By Thursday, October 29, Tart had been charged. On Friday, October 30, a federal fugitive task force arrested him in Deptford, in neighbouring Gloucester County, and recovered the Fusion where they found him. Vehicle identification, physical evidence and a multi-agency arrest — not a confession at the roadside — are what moved this case.
Source: Townsquare Media (WFPG), Oct. 27, 2026 — the earlier appeal for the two drivers
The second vehicle: a dark midsize SUV, possibly a Honda Pilot
Detectives are still asking anyone with information about the dark-colored midsize SUV that struck Rahman after the initial collision to come forward. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Samuel Funches III of the Camden County Prosecutor's Office Crash Response Investigation Team at 856-225-8083, or Officer Joe Kavano of the Voorhees Police Department at 856-882-1146. A dashcam recording, a doorbell camera facing Route 73, or a repair-shop visit by a dark SUV with fresh front-end damage in the days after October 24 could each be the detail that closes the second half of this investigation.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer reporting, via EuropeSays, Oct. 30, 2026
Why this road, and this case, matter beyond one township
Voorhees, Berlin Township and Atco sit in the South Jersey suburbs east of Philadelphia — a part of New Jersey where the Punjabi and wider South Asian community is well established, and where many readers of this site have family. Rahman's death is also, plainly, a road-safety story of a kind this desk covers again and again: a vulnerable road user, a fast multi-lane highway, the darkest hour of the night, and two drivers who — investigators say — both chose to leave. New Jersey's hit-and-run law exists precisely for that choice: the duty to stop does not depend on whose fault the collision was, and leaving converts a crash into a crime.
What happens next
Tart's next step is a detention hearing in Camden County, where the state will argue the terms on which he should be held or released while the charges are pending, and where he will have the opportunity to answer the allegations through counsel. Beyond that hearing, the case moves toward a grand jury and, if indicted, toward trial — while, in parallel, the Crash Response Investigation Team continues to hunt the driver of the dark SUV. Anyone who knows anything about that second vehicle is being asked to call the numbers above. Rahman, 71, was pronounced dead where he fell on Route 73; the investigation into the second half of that night is not finished.