HONOLULU \u2014 A tourist from Pittsburgh has been charged with manslaughter after a deadly fight in a Hawaii vacation rental, police said.<\/p>\n
A second tourist from Boston who had been arrested was released with no charges filed, police on the Big Island said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police were called to a Kailua-Kona vacation rental early Monday where a 30-year-old man wasn’t breathing.<\/p>\n
An autopsy showed that Abhishek Gupta of Pittsburgh was strangled, police said.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation found that an argument between the men turned physical, police said.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Fleming, 37, of Pittsburgh and Alexander Germany-Wald, 31, of Boston were arrested. Fleming was later charged while Germany-Wald was released after police conferred with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
A judge on Wednesday declined a request by Fleming’s attorney to release him or lower his bail. Fleming has a plane ticket to return to Pennsylvania Sunday and pandemic-related restrictions on travel will make it unfeasible for him to return for court hearings, the judge said in keeping his bail at $250,000.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney Christopher Eggert also asked to postpone Fleming’s preliminary hearing to next week and noted that his client doesn’t have a criminal history.<\/p>\n
A man who answered at a phone number for Germany-Wald declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n