{"id":76301,"date":"2017-03-30T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=76301"},"modified":"2017-04-04T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:18:33","slug":"power-rangers-actor-gets-6-years-for-roommates-stabbing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/03\/30\/power-rangers-actor-gets-6-years-for-roommates-stabbing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Power Rangers’ actor gets 6 years for roommate’s stabbing death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER – An actor who appeared in the children’s television series “Power Rangers Samurai” was sentenced Thursday to six years in state prison for fatally stabbing his roommate with a sword during an argument over the defendant’s girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Ricardo Medina<\/strong>, 38, pleaded guilty March 16 to voluntary manslaughter for the Jan. 31, 2015, killing of Josh Sutter<\/strong>, 36, at the home the two shared in Green Valley.<\/p>\n

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 Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Medina was initially arrested shortly after Sutter’s killing, then released after prosecutors asked for further investigation into the man’s death.<\/p>\n

He was re-arrested in January 2016 on a murder charge, which was dismissed as a result of his plea.<\/p>\n

Sutter’s father, Donald, spoke out during the sentencing hearing Thursday in a Lancaster courtroom.<\/p>\n

“We also hope that everyone that looks at Ricardo from now on will never see him as a celebrity, but as nothing more than a cold-blooded killer,” Donald Sutter\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

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Actor pleads not guilty to murdering roommate<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ex-Power Ranger rearrested, charged in roommate sword killing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Suspect arrested in sword stabbing death<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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