Four years for pushing man into Harbor, killing him
This just in from courts reporter Tricia Bishop:
A 21-year-old Pasadena man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Thursday for shoving a stranger who couldn't swim into the Inner Harbor in 2008 — an act previously characterized by one Baltimore judge as complete stupidity.
Wayne Black, who was 18 when he pushed 22-year-old Ankush Gupta into the water and ran, will be sentenced to four years in prison at his sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 30, per an agreement cut with Baltimore Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock.
His mother dabbed tears as the deal was done, while Gupta's friends and family sat stone-faced on the other side of the courtroom. "That is not justice," Saneel John Masih said after the hearing. He and Rohit Gupta were longtime friends of Ankush, more like brothers than buddies.
Categories: Courts and the justice system, Downtown
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Wayne Black will serve a paltry 4 years for what was more murder than involuntary manslaughter. Did anyone ever think to ask him about the 3 men with coffee colored skin probably just like Mr. Gupta: Jose Portillo, Ivan Kestler and Jamie Portillo who were found floating in the harbor just like Mr. Gupta. Wayne Black wasn't detained until 2010, he was free to rob and kill anyone during 2009. When Mr. Black inevitably is released in 4 years we can expect to find more men who have just cashed their paycheck in the harbor.
Posted by: Cham | July 28, 2011 9:58 PM
Cham, you're nuts. You should be a detective
Posted by: champ | July 29, 2011 2:40 PM
WOW ! 4 years for killing someone ?......Don't you just love our justice system !!
Posted by: Bob | July 31, 2011 8:40 AM