Bond set for suspect in fatal crash

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Bond was set at $75,000 for the suspect in a November crash that killed a 12-year-old on the North Side.

Brandon Kennedy, 31, was arraigned in municipal court before Magistrate Meghan Brundege on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault for the Nov. 17 crash that killed 12-year-old boy who was a passenger in his car on Alameda Avenue as the car he was driving collided with another car that was traveling through the intersection with Juanita Avenue.

A warrant was filed Monday in municipal court for Kennedy’s arrest and he was arrested later at a home in Girard by members of the U.S. Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force.

City Prosecutor Kathy Thompson asked for a bond of $125,000 because of past convictions of felonious assault, aggravated robbery and kidnapping in 2012 and because he has missed two court dates in the last two years.

Thompson said Kennedy was driving “in upwards of 70 miles per hour” in a 25 mile per hour zone when he crashed the car he was driving, wrapping the car around a tree.

In 2013, Kennedy was sentenced to five years in prison in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for his role in the 2012 shooting of a man on Canfield Road.

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