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Army veteran charged with manslaughter in friend's 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 was vacationing with in Hawaii, a judge ruled Thursday. Benjamin Fleming was arrested last month af...

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 strangulation of their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. The three men, friends since college at Ca...

TribLIVE's 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, also of Pittsburgh. The three men, friends since college at Carnegie Mellon University, were stayin...

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 a Big Island vacation rental last month when Gupta was asked to leave a bar because he was belliger...

TribLIVE's 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 death of Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. Police said that Fleming was a tourist in Honolulu when h...