A Maryland man faces up to 10 years behind bars after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the cowardly beating death of a father who died defending his son from a mob of school bullies.
Trevor Garrett Taylor, 26, admitted he attacked and killed worried father Christopher Wright on May 19 when a rowdy mob showed up at Wright’s home looking for his 14-year-old son after a schoolyard fight. The Baltimore Banner said in a report.
Wright, 43, suffered a traumatic brain injury when his head slammed into the pavement.
He was rushed to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died the next night, authorities said.
“Just looking at the damage that was done to him, it wasn’t just the punches that caused that,” his fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky, who witnessed the assault with the dead man’s children, told reporters after the incident.
“I mean, he had had a seizure,” Karopchinsky said. “It’s done. The hospital couldn’t do anything.”
Christopher Wright, left, was killed May 19 while protecting his 14-year-old son from a mob of thugs. wright.chris1/Facebook Trevor Garrett Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the May 19 death of Christopher Wright, who was killed in Maryland while defending his son from Taylor and a gang of thugs. WBAL
According to police, Wright’s son had been fighting with another teen at Brooklyn Park High School earlier that day, and the mob of three teens, Taylor and another adult later showed up at Wright’s home and demanded that his son come out. or they would come in and catch him.
Karopchinsky said the thugs told Wright, “if he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight.”
Wright then got into a fight with the gang.
At one point, police said Taylor grabbed his legs and sent him headlong to the ground, then punched the injured man four more times while he was on the ground, authorities said.
Christopher Wright’s fiancee, Tracy Karopchinsky, said he would have died defending any member of his family. wright.chris1/Facebook
Days later, more than 100 friends and supporters attended a vigil in Wright’s memory.
“He would have done anything for any of us, not just our children,” Karopchinsky told mourners at the vigil. “He would always have our back.”
Taylor was arrested in July and charged with involuntary manslaughter, assault, disorderly conduct and public fighting, the Baltimore Banner said.
He pleaded guilty to the main charge in court on Thursday and is due to be sentenced in October.
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