A Maryland man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the cowardly beating death of a father who was killed for defending his son from school bullies.
Trevor Garrett Taylor, 26, admitted that he attacked and killed concerned father Christopher Wright on May 19 when a mob showed up at Wright’s home looking for his 14-year-old son following a schoolyard fight, the Baltimore Banner said in a report.
Wright, 43, suffered a traumatic brain injury when his head hit the road.
He was rushed to 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 punching that did it,” his fiancee, Tracy Karopchinsky, who witnessed the attack with the boys, told reporters after the incident.
“I mean, he had a seizure,” Karopchinsky said. “It has been done. There is nothing the hospital can do.”
Christopher Wright, left, was killed on May 19 while protecting his 14-year-old son from a group of bullies. wright.chris1/Facebook Trevor Garrett Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the May 19 death of Christopher Wright, who was killed in Maryland while defending his son from Taylor and a group of bullies. WBAL
According to police, Wright’s son had gotten into a fight with another teenager at Brooklyn Park High School earlier in the day, with a group of three teenagers, Taylor and another adult later showing up at Wright’s home and demanding his son get out — or they would come in and get him.
Karopchinsky said the bully told Wright, “if he’s not going to fight back, then you’re going to fight back.”
Wright later got into a fight with the group.
At one point, police said Taylor grabbed his leg and sent him to the ground first, then tackled the injured man four more times as he fell, authorities said.
Christopher Wright’s fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky, left, saying she would die defending anyone in her family. wright.chris1/Facebook
Days later, more than 100 friends and supporters attended a vigil for Wright.
“He would have done anything for any one of us, not just our children,” Karopchinsky told mourners at the event. “He will always have our backs.”
Taylor was arrested in July and charged with murder, assault, disorderly conduct and fighting in public, the Baltimore Banner reported.
He pleaded guilty to the top charge in court on Thursday and is expected to be sentenced in October.
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