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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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