SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Authorities say a former American Idol contestant has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in death.
The South Carolina State Patrol says 17-year-old Caleb Andrew Kennedy drove his pickup truck onto a private driveway, killing a man who had been standing just outside his machine shop Tuesday afternoon.
The prosecutor's office says Kennedy is being charged as an adult. Kennedy was a finalist on the ABC reality show last year but dropped out of the singing competition after a video circulated of him sitting next to someone wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan hood.
He later apologized for the video.
