American Idol alum Caleb Kennedy is charged with felony DUI resulting in death after crash

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American Idol alum Caleb Kennedy has been charged with felony DUI resulting in death following a crash in Spartanburg, South Carolina on Tuesday that left a man dead.South Carolina Highway Patrol Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway told WYFF4 that the 17-year-old singer was driving a 2011 Ford pick-up northbound on West Murph Road that careened into a private driveway and struck a residential building in which a man named Larry Duane Parris, 54, was inside.Parris was pronounced dead at 3:45 p.m.

at a nearby hospital in the wake of the crash, Rusty Clevenger of the Spartanburg County Coroners Office told the outlet. The latest:American Idol alum Caleb Kennedy, 17, has been charged with felony DUI resulting in death following a crash in Spartanburg, South Carolina on Tuesday that left a man deadKennedy was hospitalized after the crash and taken to a nearby hospital, Ridgeway told the station.Kennedy made headlines last year after he withdrew from American Idol amid a racism scandal, as he was seen in a social media clip seated next to a person wearing an apparent Ku Klux Klan hood. 'Hey y’all, this is gonna be a bit of a surprise but I am no longer gonna be on American Idol,' he wrote in an Instagram post in May of 2021.