2 Plead Guilty in Death of Reno Homeless Man

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Posted: 12:08 PM Aug 28, 2008 2 Plead Guilty in Death of Reno Homeless Man Two men have pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for stomping a homeless man to death in a downtown Reno park.

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RENO, Nev. (AP) - Two men have pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for stomping a homeless man to death in a downtown
Reno park.

Twenty-year-old Christopher Michael Maciolek and 19-year-old Finley Byrdette Fultz face up to 10 years in prison when sentenced in October for the Sept. 3 beating death of James Markham Beasley.

Police say the 55-year-old Beasley was sleeping in Brick Park when the pair, yelling white supremacy remarks, kicked him in the head and stomped on him.

Beasley died later at a hospital.

A prosecutor called the attack an alcohol-fueled "thrill seeking spree."

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