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HONOLULU – A tourist from Pittsburgh has been charged with manslaughter after a deadly fight in a Hawaii vacation rental, police said. A second tourist from Boston who had been arrested was released with no charges filed, police on the Big Island said March 31. Police were called to a Kailua-Kona vacation rental early March 29 where a 30-year-old man wasnt breathing. An autopsy showed that Abhishek Gupta of Pittsburgh was strangled, police said. A preliminary investigation found that an ar...

Tourist in deadly vacation rental fight asks to leave Hawaii Follow Us Question of the Day     By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press - Thursday, April 15, 2021 HONOLULU (AP) - A Pittsburgh man pleaded not guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the strangulation of a college buddy he was vacationing with in Hawaii. A judge ordered Benjamin Fleming, who has been released on $250,000 bond, not to leave the B...

A judge ordered Benjamin Fleming, who has been released on $250,000 bond, not to leave the Big Island without court permission pending his trial, scheduled for August. Fleming was staying at a Kailua-Kona Airbnb last month with two buddies hes known since college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Alexander Germany-Wald of Montclair, New Jersey, testified at a preliminary hearing for Fleming last week that their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh, got “psychotically” drunk...

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHERApril 9, 2021 GMT FILE - In this file photo, provided by Hawaii Police Department, is Benjamin Fleming, of Pittsburgh. Alexander Germany-Wald testified Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at a preliminary hearing for his college buddy, Fleming, who is charged with murder for the strangulation of their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. (Hawaii Police Department via AP, File) FILE - In this file photo, provided by Hawaii Police Department, is Benjamin Fleming, of Pittsbu...

The Associated Press HONOLULU — There is probable cause to charge a Pittsburgh tourist with manslaughter in the strangulation death of the college buddy he was vacationing with in Hawaii, a judge ruled Thursday. Benjamin Fleming was arrested last month after his first night out on the Hawaii Island with his two college friends ended in a deadly fight. Alexander Germany-Wald of Montclair, N.J., testified at a preliminary hearing for Fleming that their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsbur...

Army veteran charged with manslaughter in friends Hawaii death This file photo, provided by Hawaii Police Department, shows Benjamin Fleming, of Pittsburgh. Fleming is charged with murder for the strangulation of his friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Associated Press | Published: April 9, 2021 HONOLULU — There is probable cause to charge a Pittsburgh tourist with manslaughter in the strangulation death of the college buddy he w...

Hawaii vacation of 3 friends from East Coast ended in death JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER , Associated Press April 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii vacation for three tourists from the U.S. East Coast turned deadly after one of them became “psychotically” drunk, his friend testified Wednesday. Alexander Germany-Wald of Montclair, New Jersey, testified at a preliminary hearing for his college buddy, Benjamin Fleming of Pittsburgh, who is charged with murder in the strangula...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. HONOLULU — A Hawaii vacation for three tourists from the East Coast turned deadly once one of them became “psychotically” drunk, his friend testified Wednesday. Alexander Germany-Wald of Montclair, N.J., testified at a preliminary hearing for his college buddy, Benjamin Fleming of Pittsburgh, who is charged with murder in the strangulation of their friend, Abhishek Gupta, ...

HONOLULU — A Hawaii vacation for three tourists from the U.S. East Coast turned deadly after one of them became “psychotically” drunk, his friend testified Wednesday. Alexander Germany-Wald, of Montclair, testified at a preliminary hearing for his college buddy, Benjamin Fleming of Pittsburgh, who is charged with murder in the strangulation of their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. The three men, friends since college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, were staying at...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Three men embroiled in a manslaughter case in Hawaii — including the victim, the man accused of killing him, and another charged and released — all graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business last year. Benjamin P. Fleming, 37, of Pittsburgh, is charged with manslaughter and is being held on a $250,000 bond in connection with the strangulation dea...