Editor’s Note: Two Falls Township police officials told LevittownNow.com on Monday afternoon that Kevin Kenny’s bail was set at $5 million, not $55 million as listed on court records. On Tuesday, a review of court documents confirmed Kenny’s bail was set by District Judge Jan Vislosky at $55 million.
A Fairless Hills man is charged with homicide and numerous other serious offenses connected to the death of a 74-year-old man.
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Kevin Kenny, 49, of the Fairless Hills section of Falls Township, was charged Monday afternoon with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment. He was arraigned before District Judge Van Vislosky and sent to Bucks County Prison in Doylestown on $5 million bail, police said, confirming that the $55 million bail posted on court documents was a misprint.
Kenny is alleged to have knocked 74-year-old John Fleisch to the ground during an argument over a minor car accident in early June, police said. An autopsy revealed the fall lead to the man’s late July death, police said.
According to court papers, Fleisch’s maroon F-150 went over a over a concrete parking block and struck Kenny’s black F-150 in the parking lot of Puss n Boots Tavern on Trenton Road in Falls on Wednesday, June 3. Surveillance video shows Kenny exiting his vehicle and giving chase to Fleisch’s pickup as he drives away, police said.
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When Fleisch’s vehicle stopped, surveillance video showed Kenny reaching into the man’s pickup truck “aggressively” several times, police said.
Eventually, the 74-year-old man exited his vehicle and Kenny shoved him several times against the F-150, police said.
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The two men then are reportedly seen walking to Kenny’s vehicle and talking. Kenny is then seen in surveillance video grabbing Fleisch in the area of his neck and chin, and then thrusting him back and forth, police said. They added that Fleisch then falls to the ground and never gets up.
Police stated that Kenny is seen standing over Fleisch’s body and moving a unidentifiable body part, which is partially obscured by the the 39-year-old’s truck.
According to a police criminal complaint filed by Detective Steven Reeves and Officer Mark Zielinski, surveillance video shows Kenny’s “nonchalantly” walking into the bar as Fleisch laid on the ground.
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Fleisch, who at the time was disoriented, became unresponsive once police and crews from the Levittown-Fairless Hills Rescue Squad began tending to him. Police said the elderly man was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown Township.
Kenny told police he went up to Fleisch’s stopped pickup and removed the keys and put it in park, according to court papers. He then said he walked over to his vehicle with the 74-year-old when the man fell, adding he aided Fleisch by placing a shirt under his head and going to the bar to call 9-1-1, police said.
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Fleisch was released from St. Mary Medical Center and went to several tretment and hospice centers before passing on July 26 at Chander Hall in Newtown.
An autopsy conducted by the Bucks County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Fleisch’s cause of death was homicide. After a deputy coroner viewed the surveillance footage, he ruled that “assault by another” lead to the man’s death.
