Fatal Dublin crash: Ex-OSU football player Kirk Barton charged with homicide
Kirk Barton, a former OSU player, has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide after a fatal crash in Dublin, Ohio.
On Saturday, June 21, a fatal car crash happened in Dublin, Ohio and; while the accident remains under investigation, a former Ohio State Football player, who apparently had been drinking, has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide as the person responsible.
Kirk Barton, a 40-year-old man from Lewis Center, was driving a Ford F150 Raptor pickup truck, allegedly “at a high rate of speed” just before 3 a.m., when he crashed into a Lexus on West Bridge Street. The accident resulted in the death of 24-year-old Ethan Perry.
Ex-OSU football player Kirk Barton charged with homicide
The 24-year-old Ethan Perry, the victim of the fatal car crash, was pronounced dead at the scene, while Barton only suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Following the crash, and after a brief stay at Riverside Methodist Hospital, a local hospital; Barton was later released into police custody.
Barton has been officially summoned to Franklin County Municipal Court at 9 a.m. on Monday, to be charged with a second-degree felony count of aggravated vehicular homicide; however, this is not the first time he has had trouble with the law.
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Kirk Barton’s criminal record
According to court records, he has been charged with with many traffic-related offenses in the past and other non-related issues. The first one, was in 2018, when after an incident at The Boggey Inn, Barton slammed a taxi van door into an officer’s arm; which resulted in him being charged with felonious assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.
The second incident, while he did not particularly get in trouble with the law, led to the state of Ohio banning him and the website he co-founded, "Buckeye Scoop," from covering Ohio State events due to unauthorized access to practice footage used to report on the team.
