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Monday, November 30, 2009
Alleged Kernich assailants indicted on murder charges
KENT — The two Akron men accused of beating former Fairborn High School student Christopher Kernich to death were indicted Monday, Nov. 30, on murder charges.
Ronald Gene Kelly, 20, and Adrian Alexander Barker, 21, were already indicted on felonious assault charges before Kernich’s death. Barker is also charged with obstructing official business.
Kernich, 23, a Kent State University student and 2005 Fairborn graduate, was severely beaten Nov. 15 in what police called an unprovoked assault. He died at an Akron hospital on Nov. 21.
Kelly and Barker were in a car that was pulling out of a parking lot when it nearly struck a group of people walking on a sidewalk. Kernich was in the group of pedestrians, police said.
The suspects’ car continued down the street until the driver parked it in a driveway. As Kernich’s group walked by, the suspects confronted Kernich’s group and assaulted three of them.
Kernich, suffering from apparent head injuries, was on the ground and unconscious when emergency workers arrived on a report of an assault in progress, police said.
A 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior, Kernich was a three-sport athlete at Fairborn High School, playing football, baseball and basketball.
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Man pleads guilty to manslaughter before start of his murder trial
DAYTON — A man charged with killing his girlfriend’s brother pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Monday, Nov. 30, the day he was to go on trial.
DaJuan M. Bell, 29, had been indicted on a count of murder, but pleaded to a bill of information for the lesser charge. On Monday, he also pleaded guilty to the other indicted charges: two counts of felonious assault, one count of carrying a concealed weapon and one count of being a felon with a weapon.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances McGee set sentencing for Dec. 15.
Bell was charged with the slaying of Kantron Gipson, who died July 11. Gipson was the brother of Chakisha Alstork, the mother of Bell’s 2-year-old son. Gipson’s family members said in July that Gipson was angry because Bell kept hitting Alstork.
On July 11, Gipson went to the 3000 block of Wexford Place, in the Hilltop Homes housing project, to confront Bell. They argued, and Gipson was shot while running from Bell, Dayton police said.
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