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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 wasn't breathing. An autopsy showed that Abhishek Gupta of Pittsburgh was strangled, police said. A preliminary investigation found that an argument between the men turned physical, police said. Benjamin Fleming, 37, of Pittsburgh and Alexan...

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 Big Island without court permission pending his trial, scheduled for August. Fleming was staying at ...

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 he's 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 on their first night on the Big Island. Germany-Wald said he walked Gupta back to the rental, wher...

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 Pittsburgh. Alexander Germany-Wald testified Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at a preliminary hearing for his col...

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 Pittsburgh, got “psychotically” drunk. Germany-Wald said he walked Gupta back to their Kailua-Kona Airbn...