"Power Rangers Samurai" actor Ricardo Medina has pleaded guilty to killing his roommate with a sword.
Medina, 38, entered a plea Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court to voluntary manslaughter.
He is facing six years in state prison.
Medina had been charged with murder and faced 26 years to life in prison if convicted on that charge.
Prosecutors say Medina stabbed Joshua Sutter in the abdomen with a sword two years ago at their house in Green Valley, a mountain town north of Los Angeles.
The two had argued over Medina's girlfriend and Medina initially claimed the stabbing was in self defense.
In addition to his fatal abdominal wound, the autopsy showed Sutter had sustained sharp force injuries, including hand injuries consistent with defensive wounds.
Sutter’s sister Rachel Kennedy told local TV that her brother would have been 38 on Thursday.
Medina played the Red Lion Wild Force Ranger on "Power Rangers Wild Force" in 2002, and he was the voice of Deker on "Power Rangers Samurai" in 2011 and 2012.
With a six year sentence, and already having served two waiting for trial, it won't be all that long before he is released. If I remember correctly, initially prosecutors were not even going to charge him with a crime so that murder charge always seemed like a reach.
6 YEARS FOR ENDING SOMEONE'S LIFE?!?!?!
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Damn, our system sucks.
ReplyDeletehe's the second murderer to come out of that show. remember the guy who who got the death penalty for murdering a couple on their boat during a test cruise in 2004? he was just an extra, but still.
ReplyDeleteA fight over a girlfriend? Or maybe that's a cover for domestic violence.
ReplyDeleteThat sentence is a joke. Three strikes law overcrowded Ca. Prisons. Population has been reduced but this guy should have 15 to 20. Voluntary manslaughtet us a joke. Hope the family sues him and makes his life hell.
ReplyDeleteI came here to say the same thing! What the heck happened on that show?!
ReplyDeleteIt just shows that if you are just a tiny bit famous you can get away with murder or become a president.
ReplyDeleteI always thought the red power ranger had anger issues, even the 90s version! also, six years for killing another human beings....white irrelevant tv star....typical.
ReplyDeleteSix years! Incomprehensible. Should be 15 to 20.
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