Police add homicide by vehicle charge in firefighter death
HARRISBURG (AP) – Police say a woman who crashed into a Pennsylvania firefighter rushing to the scene of a fatal hoverboard fire was high on PCP and have added homicide by vehicle charges against her.
Eighteen-year-old Khanyae Kendall was already in the Dauphin County jail on aggravated assault by vehicle and other offenses when the new charges were filed Monday. Online court records don’t list an attorney for her.
Harrisburg fire officials say Lt. Dennis DeVoe died March 11, a day after Kendall’s vehicle crashed into his as he drove to a fire station to pick up his gear.
The fire was blamed on a recharging hoverboard. The blaze killed one girl and injured four other people, two critically.
Kendall remains unable to post $1 million bail and faces a preliminary hearing April 17.