American Idol's Caleb Kennedy jailed for 8 years after devastating crash which killed dad

Former American Idol prima Caleb Kennedy has been sentenced to jailhouse aft a DUI incidental successful February 2022 that killed a 54-year-old man

A erstwhile American Idol prima has been sentenced aft causing the decease of a joined antheral aft driving nether the influence.

Caleb Kennedy has been sentenced to jailhouse 2 years aft the incidental successful 2022 successful South Carolina wherever helium crashed his truck. Then aged 17, the state singer's conveyance careened into a backstage driveway. Tragically, Larry Duane Parris, 54, was deed by the conveyance aft being stood extracurricular his location workshop. The interaction of the incidental drove Parris wrong the shop. He was recovered by his girl and pronounced dormant astatine a section infirmary 3 hours later.

Now 20, Kennedy pleaded blameworthy to driving nether the power and causing death. Kennedy was sentenced to 25 years successful situation and received a $25,100 fine. The condemnation was suspended to 8 years and $15,100, according to WSPA. On apical of his sentence, Kennedy has to acquisition intelligence wellness and substance maltreatment counselling. He besides volition look 5 years of probation.

According to the Greenville News, warrants said helium was nether the power of cannabis via a vape pen arsenic helium was driving to his girlfriend’s location astatine the clip of the deadly crash.

"This lawsuit shows the dangers of vape pens to society," authoritative Barry J. Barnette revealed successful a connection to Entertainment Weekly. The singer's lawyer Ryan Beasley said, per Greenville News: “He's got nary record, and helium was a insignificant erstwhile this happened. This wasn't specified an egregious enactment that you spot astir of the time, wherever radical were drinking and driving past they deed idiosyncratic astatine nighttime oregon going the incorrect mode down the road. This was a weird absorption from his medicine medicine and perchance THC."

He added: "A precise bully idiosyncratic (Larry Parris) died, and I consciousness truthful atrocious for the Parris family. Caleb's precise remorseful and his heartfelt sympathies are extended to the Parris family. This sentencing starts the healing process for everybody progressive successful this situation."

During Season 19 of American Idol, Kennedy made it to the last 5 contestants. Despite coming adjacent to winning the deed show, helium was removed from the contention due to the fact that of a societal media contention that sprung up aft a video resurfaced. The clip captured him successful a hood that galore thought looked akin to a Ku Klux Klan robe.

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