HAWAII — A Pittsburgh man is dead and another Pittsburgh man is behind bars after a fight at a hotel in Hawaii turned deadly.
According to Hawaii Island police, the victim was 30-year-old Abhishek Gupta. Investigators said the cause of death was determined to be strangulation.
Police said 37-year-old Benjamin Fleming of Pittsburgh and 31-year-old Alexander Germany-Wald of Boston were arrested following the fight. They said shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday, dispatch was called about a man who was unresponsive and not breathing in Kailua-Kona. First responders started CPR on Gupta when they arrived, but those efforts “were unsuccessful.”
Investigators said the incident started as a verbal argument and then escalated.
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