American Idol Alum Caleb Kennedy Charged After Allegedly Killing Person During DUI Crash

Caleb Kennedy, who appeared on Season 19 of American Idol, has been arrested and charged with a felony DUI following a lethal automotive crash in South Carolina, police inform E! Information.

Kennedy was driving his 2011 Ford pickup on West Murphy Highway round midday on Tuesday, Feb. 8, when he drove into a non-public drive and “struck” a constructing, the South Carolina Freeway Patrol’s Mitchell Ridgeway informed E! Information. He stated the particular person contained in the constructing died as a result of collision.

The 17-year-old singer, who’s from Roebuck, S.C, was charged with felony driving below the affect leading to dying, authorities stated.

Ridgeway added, “This crash stays below investigation by the South Carolina Freeway Patrol.”

He was booked within the Spartanburg County Detention Middle on a felony DUI dying cost, stated Murray Glenn, a spokesman for the seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Workplace, in an announcement to E! Information. A bond listening to shall be held at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9.