The Columbia teenager accused of murder after a brawl at Mount Hebron High School in February won?t have to face traffic citations he received a month before the fight.
Kevin Klink, 19, admitted to driving with a suspended license after police stopped him around midnight for going 20 miles over the speed limit on Route 175 at Dobbin Road in January. Klink?s license had been suspended after he was charged with driving while impaired by alcohol on Route 100 and Snowden River Parkway last September, according to court records.
But Howard Circuit Judge Richard Bernhardt removed the case from the active court docket for one year Tuesday at the request of prosecutors. Klink is being held at the Howard County Detention Center in Jessup while he awaits his trial in January on a first-degree murder charge over the slaying of 18-year-old Robert Brazell.
Klink was not present in court, but his attorney Sam Truette told the judge he had spoken with Klink, who agreed with the prosecutor?s request.
The brawl at Mount Hebron was a “rematch” between two groups of teenagers at Town and County Boulevard in Ellicott City five days earlier, said Susan Weinstein, senior assistant state?s attorney.
Six teenagers were charged with disorderly conduct during the initial fight on Feb. 19, including Tyler Hodgson, who also was charged with second-degree assault and possession of paraphernalia for a smoking device found in his car, Assistant State?s Attorney Brendan Clary said.
But the charges from the firstfight were dropped in April because it was a “mutual affray situation where several individuals were fighting, and we could not determine precisely who did what because all victims and witnesses were uncooperative,” Clary said.
