(Hawaii Police Department via AP)
HONOLULU (AP) — A jury in Hawaii has found a Pennsylvania man not guilty of manslaughter. Benjamin Fleming of Pittsburgh was charged with manslaughter in the strangulation death of a college buddy he was vacationing with on the Big Island last year. Fleming and two friends from Carnegie Mellon University were staying at a vacation rental in Kailua-Kona when a night out drinking ended in a deadly fight. An autopsy showed that Abhishek Gupta of Pittsburgh was strangled. Fleming’s defense attorney says that Gupta’s death was tragic but it was not a crime. Prosecutors didn’t immediately comment on the verdict, which was reached last week.