Man pleads guilty to downtown Fargo beating death

FARGO – A responsible plea Wednesday in a downtown Fargo beating dying.

58-year outdated Roberto Garcia plead responsible to manslaughter for the beating dying of 53-year-old Cirilo Contreras again in August.

The bloody assault occurred on a Saturday afternoon at this picnic desk behind the Alerus Financial institution off Broadway.

Prosecutors say they’d been ingesting.

Prosecutors didn’t say how the boys knew one another or what they fought about or if a weapon was used. It was decided Contreas died from a mind damage. He additionally had neck accidents and was lacking quite a few enamel.

“Mr. Garcia struck Mr Contreas a variety of occasions inflicting accidents which finally resulted in Mr Contreas dying,” mentioned Assistant Cass County State’s Lawyer Joshua Traiser.

Contreras’ physique went unnoticed for 14 hours. Two hours after the lethal beating, Garcia went to the bus station a number of blocks away the place a safety guard referred to as an ambulance as Garcia had an injured hand.

Garcia instructed a safety guard on the bus station he was attacked whereas asleep.

Nonetheless, Garcia ran away earlier than the ambulance arrived.

He was arrested a month later in St. Paul.

Earlier this month the court docket ordered Garcia to bear a psychological well being examination. Nonetheless, with the responsible plea that was withdrawn. Prosecutors and his attorneys agreed Garcia will serve 4 years in jail and be on 3 years of supervised probation.

“Mr. Garcia your honor, has stage 3 Cirrhosis of the liver, toxins from the liver can enter the mind and trigger delusions,” mentioned Nicole Bredahl.

Garcia will likely be formally sentenced in March.