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http://archives.seattletimes.nwsourc...teboard+attack

Local News: Friday, December 27, 2002
Skateboarder pleads guilty in fatal U District attack

By Janet Burkitt
Seattle Times staff reporter

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A 23-year-old who used his skateboard to beat a man who died a few days later pleaded guilty yesterday to first-degree manslaughter.

Timothy R. Strano entered an Alford plea in King County Superior Court, meaning he did not admit to hitting 33-year-old Demetri Andrews but acknowledged that a jury would probably find him guilty.

The incident, which occurred in Seattle's University District in April, stemmed from a traffic dispute.

Andrews, of Renton, was driving home with his girlfriend after an evening lecture when Strano and another skateboarder cut him off at the intersection of Northeast 45th Street and University Way Northeast, according to charging papers.

Words were exchanged, and Andrews got out and argued with Strano's companion, who pushed Andrews to the ground, prosecutors say. Strano swung at him "with all his might," according to one witness, and then ran, charging papers say.

Andrews, a real-estate agent, construction worker and father to a 6-year-old son, slipped into a coma the next day and died two days later.

In court yesterday, Strano was escorted past Andrews' mother, Rothopi Andrews, who shouted at him.

Prosecutors originally charged Strano with second-degree murder, but Senior Deputy Prosecutor Steve Fogg said the charge was changed because of a recent state Supreme Court decision saying a person can't be convicted of murder if the death was the unintended result of an assault.

Prosecutors decried the state Supreme Court ruling ? saying it could potentially affect hundreds of cases ? and have asked the court to reconsider. Strano, who would have faced a standard sentence of just over 10 years to more than 18 years if convicted of second-degree murder, now probably faces 6-½ to 8-½ years behind bars.




"A few years is not worth my son's life," Andrews' mother said after the hearing. "... Where is the justice for my boy?" Andrews was a Mercer Island High School graduate who remained friends with his classmates, was active in the local Greek community and helped out at his family's restaurant, Niko's Place, across from KeyArena. The family sold the business after Andrews' death.

ummm, hold up. Some guy, skate into the street causing a guy to brake.

Instead of driving off he <b>exits the vehicle to confront them?</b>

Note: it only says 'investigation of homicide' how do you people know they weren't defending themselves from a road rage maniac?

He jumped out of his vehicle for what reason again?

Confrontation?

Here in LA, if you jump out of your car to 'confront' someone because of braking, you better have a gun or be wearing a vest.

He's lucky they only used a concave piece of wood with wheels to beat his ass.

He would have had 12 holes in his head, face, and chest if he pulled that shit here.

WTF is with all the pussies that just stand around and watch this dude get beat down with a skateboard. I would have fucked some shit up, or at least tried to help the guy.

Skateboards are lethal weapon that should not be in the hand's of minors!

Fletch no offence to you, but you live in a very sad part of the world if people are willing to do that over something so trivial.

DH

That is so true. I hate fist fight scenes in movies where the fight goes on and on when in real life just one of the blows would have broken the guy's jaw or knocked him out.

The most ridiculous fist fight scene of all time is in the sci-fi movie "They Live." Both men walk away basically unharmed, when in reality they'd be dead.

50 videos

I live in The Valley of Death.

LA is gangster.

gangster gangster.

remember killers are everywhere, even canada.

that's some funky shit

yea shit happens ;9

Watching that video makes me ashamed to be human..

I also don't get why the other 20+ people watching didn't defend that guy being beaten and just pummel that skateboard punk..

I know I would have, that shit would just not fly with me.

That is seriously fucked up.

Pretty fucked, but that kid gets what he asked for. He better start sticking razors up his ass from now on.

This happened almost 18 months ago. We here in Seattle are still haunted by it. I can't cross that intersection without thinking about what happened.

Thats shitty to hear. :(

I can only hope that this video teaches us what not to become-

Dood..that article is from April of 2002!!