A man has waived a scheduled jury trial and pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in connection to a crash that killed a 25-year-old man on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge in 2023.
Keshaun Compton was expected to face a jury on eight counts of vehicular manslaughter stemming from the December 7, 2023 collision that claimed the life of 25-year-old John Pinkerton, but instead on Monday entered a guilty plea to one count of vehicular homicide, a 1st-degree misdemeanor.
According to court documents, the crash occurred around 4 p.m. when Compton, driving a Honda Odyssey minivan northbound, attempted to pass a slow-moving truck in the center lane of the bridge. At the time, a red X indicator above the lane prohibited northbound traffic from entering…