Braylon DavisA 21-year-old man accused of driving under the influence in a 2013 crash that killed his passenger took the stand Thursday during his trial.
“I lost a friend,” Braylon Davis told jurors in Hamilton County Criminal Court. “He (Taylor Lee Collins) was a close friend to me. It wasn’t years of friendship. But the friendship that we had was worth years. And I’m sorry.”
Prosecutors say Davis was intoxicated when he ran a car off South Germantown Road, drove up a hill sideways and crashed into the side of a home around midnight on Dec. 3, 2013.
Collins, his 25-year-old passenger and friend, was launched through the windshield and died from his injuries, prosecutors say.
Davis, who was 19 at the time, was arrested in May 2014 after a grand jury indicted him on charges of vehicular homicide by intoxication, reckless endangerment, minor in possession of alcohol and driving under the influence.