PITTSBURGH (AP) - The second of two teenagers charged in the beating death of a fellow resident of a Pittsburgh group home as pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Eighteen-year-old Malik (mah-LEEK’) Crosby pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to the time he served in jail since the Jan. 10, 2015 attack on 16-year-old Nicholas Grant at Circle C Youth and Family Services Group Home.
Seventeen-year-old Yusuf Shepard also pleaded guilty last month in a plea agreement calling for a five- to 10-year sentence.
Authorities alleged that Shepard put Grant in a chokehold while Crosby beat him with a vacuum cleaner that Grant had thrown during an argument.
An Allegheny County judge had previously ruled prosecutors couldn’t seek first- or third-degree murder convictions against the defendants, resulting in the plea agreements.
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