{"id":87369,"date":"2019-05-07T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=87369"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:48:59","slug":"man-pleads-not-guilty-in-lancaster-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/05\/07\/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-lancaster-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads not guilty in Lancaster death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87371\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87371\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Berryman-Borsotti-Jack-in-the-Box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Berryman-Borsotti-Jack-in-the-Box.jpg 734w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Berryman-Borsotti-Jack-in-the-Box-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Main image] Jack in the Box parking lot where the incident took place. [Inset L to R] Suspect Manuel Berryman and victim Frank Borsotti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER &#8211; A Kern County man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge stemming from the death of a man who was found gravely wounded in the parking lot of a Lancaster fast-food restaurant earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manuel Berryman<\/strong> of California City, 39, is charged in the Jan. 3 death of <strong>Frank Borsotti<\/strong>, who was discovered outside a Jack in the Box restaurant in the 43600 block of 10th Street West.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were sent around 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3, to the parking lot of the restaurant to investigate a report of an assault, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon the deputies&#8217; arrival, they found the victim on the ground suffering from obvious trauma,&#8221; according to a statement from the sheriff&#8217;s department.<\/p>\n<p>Borsotti, a 61-year-old Lancaster resident, died about five hours later at a hospital. His cause of death was blunt force head trauma, according to the Los Angeles County coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Berryman was initially described by the sheriff&#8217;s department as being wanted for questioning. He was charged Feb. 13 with Borsotti&#8217;s killing, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>He turned himself over to the sheriff&#8217;s department about noon Feb. 19. He has remained behind bars since then in lieu of $2 million bail, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p>Berryman is due back in a Lancaster courtroom May 21 for a hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence to allow the case against him to proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/02\/19\/suspect-arrested-in-lancaster-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Suspect arrested in Lancaster homicide<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/21\/california-city-man-wanted-for-questioning-in-deadly-assault-in-lancaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>California City man wanted for questioning in deadly assault in Lancaster<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/08\/authorities-identify-man-killed-in-lancaster-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Authorities identify man killed in Lancaster assault<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/04\/man-killed-in-suspected-assault-in-lancaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man killed in suspected assault in Lancaster<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A Kern County man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge stemming from the death of a man who was found gravely wounded in the parking lot of a Lancaster fast-food restaurant earlier this year. Manuel Berryman of California City, 39, is charged in the Jan. 3 death of Frank Borsotti, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,1499,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}