YOUNGSTOWN — Brandon T. Kennedy, 32, of Girard, pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in a Nov. 17, 2023, crash at Alameda and Juanita avenues on the North Side in which a 12-year-old passenger in his car was killed.

Mahoning County prosecutors will ask Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney to sentence Kennedy to 8 to 11 years in prison July 11. Kennedy is free on bond.

He will also have a mandatory driver’s license suspension of at least three years, Mahoning County assistant prosecutor Jennifer Paris said.

The 9:21 a.m. crash killed Ja’Vonie M. LaBooth, 12, of Alameda Avenue and injured three other people, according to Vindicator files. Ja’Vonie attended Rayen Early College Middle School, according to his obituary.

Kennedy drove a 2023 Dodge Charger at high speed and failed to stop at a stop sign, according to a Youngstown Police Department crash report. He disobeyed a stop sign, striking a northbound vehicle on Juanita Avenue, the police report states.

When officers arrived, they found Kennedy’s car crashed into a tree.

Kennedy suffered suspected serious injuries. The driver of the other vehicle, Eric M. Pruitt, 29, of Juanita Avenue, suffered suspected minor injuries, according to the crash report.

Jakahira LaBooth, 13, of Alameda Avenue, another passenger in Kennedy’s vehicle, suffered suspected serious injuries, the report states.

Kennedy was indicted on involuntary manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, two counts of felony vehicular assault, two counts of felony child endangering and one misdemeanor count of driving under suspension or in violation of license restriction.

Many of those charges were dismissed in exchange for Kennedy’s guilty pleas.