A man who Darlington police say was arrested and charged as an accessory in a 2008 slaying now faces a long list of other criminal charges, including kidnapping.
Police were called to a home on Wilson Street in Darlington about 1 a.m. Wednesday to a reported domestic dispute between 21-year-old Josh Kelly and his girlfriend, Darlington Police Capt. Danny Watson said. Officers were able to diffuse the situation and left the scene.
Police then received a call to respond to another incident about 4 a.m. Wednesday. In that incident, Watson said, Kelly’s girlfriend said she was being held against her will in her vehicle by the suspect and that he would not let her out of the vehicle. The suspect also punched the female several times in her face.
Police caught up with the couple in their vehicle on Wyandot Street and took the suspect into custody after a brief confrontation.
Kelly is charged with kidnapping, two counts of criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, a count of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, a count of assault with intent to kill, use of vehicle without owner’s consent and driving under suspension, Watson said.
Kelly was out on bond for a previous charge of accessory after the fact of murder in the 2008 death of John Robert Spell.
Spell, 29, was found dead in a parked car in Darlington County on March 17, 2008.
Christopher Anthony Kinney, who was 17 at the time, is charged with murder in the crime. Bernard Scott and Rykeem Rochell Wilson were charged, along with Kelly, with accessory after the fact of murder. Darlington Municipal Judge Daniel Causey set bond for the trio in March 2008.
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