‘American Idol’ Finalist Caleb Kennedy Arrested For DUI In Fatal Car Accident
Former American Idol contestant Caleb Kennedy, who competed on the show in 2021, was arrested and charged with a felony DUI on Feb. 8 after allegedly crashing his truck into a building in South Carolina, killing one man who was inside. “A vehicle driven by Caleb Andrew Kennedy ran into a workshop behind a home at 12:33 p.m. in the 200 block of W. Murph Road just 3 miles south of Pacolet,” Fire Chief for the Pacolet, South Carolina Fire Station told HollywoodLife in a statement. “The victim inside of the workshop, 54-year-old Larry Duane Parris, was taken to the hospital and later died from the injuries he sustained.”