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“Power Rangers” actor pleads guilty in roommate’s stabbing death

by The AV Times Staff • March 16, 2017

The sword attack occurred shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, inside a home in the 38000 block of San Francisquito Canyon Road in Green Valley, about 20 miles northwest of Palmdale. [Main photo by LUIS MEZA] Inset photo: Ricardo Medina
LANCASTER – An actor who appeared in the children’s television series “Power Rangers Samurai” has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for his roommate’s stabbing death just over two years ago.

Ricardo Medina, 38, admitted an allegation that he used a sword during the Jan. 31, 2015, killing of Josh Sutter at the home the two shared in Green Valley, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Medina — who is due back in a Lancaster courtroom for sentencing on March 30 — is facing six years in prison.

The two men had gotten into an argument about Medina’s girlfriend and the dispute turned physical, with Medina stabbing Sutter multiple times with a sword, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Medina was initially arrested shortly after Sutter’s killing, then released after prosecutors asked for further investigation into the man’s death, authorities said.
Medina was arrested again by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in January 2016 on a murder charge stemming from the killing. He has remained behind bars since then, according to jail records.

The murder charge is expected to be dismissed as a result of his plea.

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3 comments for "“Power Rangers” actor pleads guilty in roommate’s stabbing death"

  1. really now?? says

    March 20, 2017 at 11:24 am

    Gone! Gone! Power Ranger!

  2. AV supporter says

    March 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm

    Wow if it was a Latino or black man it would be a minimum of 25 years to life

  3. leeroy says

    March 17, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    White on White crime SMH!

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