Overview

• Barton faces a second-degree felony charge of aggravated vehicular manslaughter over the June 21 crash that killed 24-year-old Ethan Perry in Dublin, Ohio.
• Police say Barton was driving a Ford F-150 Raptor at high speed on the wrong side of West Bridge Street around 3 a.m. when he struck Perry’s Lexus.
• Responding officers noted slurred speech, the odor of alcohol and Barton’s admission that he had been drinking before the collision.
• After suffering non-life-threatening injuries and release from Riverside Methodist Hospital, Barton was arraigned June 23 in Franklin County Municipal Court.
• His preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 1 under bond conditions that bar him from operating a vehicle or leaving central Ohio.