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YOUNGSTOWN -- The city man charged March 2 with killing former Youngstown State University football player Darius Shackleford, 24, in a Feb. 6 crash on Albert Street was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court.
Adrienne D. Washington Jr., 19, was apprehended and placed in the Mahoning County jail Tuesday. He is being held on a $75,000 bond and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in front of Judge Carla Baldwin at 10 a.m. March 19.
He is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and felony leaving the scene of an accident.
Youngstown police said Washington's car hit Shackleford's car at 11:54 p.m. at the intersection of Albert Street and McGuffey Avenue while Washington was fleeing from a Youngstown police car. Washington fled on foot after the crash but was apprehended by police.
Shackleford was from Newark and was part of the YSU football team from 2015 to 2020.
Mayor Jamael Tito Brown called Shackleford "innocent by all accounts" during a news conference at the police department last month.
The incident began with a patrol officer observing a "dangerous traffic violation" at the intersection of Albert Street and the Himrod Avenue Expressway, police Chief Carl Davis said. Washington ran a red light.
"This vehicle was headed in the opposite direction of the officer," he said. "As the officer turned around and activated his lights and sirens, this vehicle at a high rate of speed fled northbound on Albert Street through a red light, subsequently crashing into Mr. Shackleford's vehicle that was traveling westbound at McGuffey in the intersection," Davis said.
The distance from the point where the officer turned around to when Washington's vehicle crashed at the intersection is about three-tenths of a mile, or five blocks.
A 17-year-old passenger in Washington's car did not flee.
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