Ricardo Medina is sentenced to six years in prison.
Ricardo Medina played the Red Lion Ranger in the Power Rangers Wild Force TV series from 2002 to 2003. As well as his role in Power Rangers Wild Force, Medina also voiced the character of Deker in Power Rangers Samurai. He has also made cameos in ER and CSI: Miami.
More than a decade later, the 38-year old actor is being sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter. He killed his roommate with a samurai sword.
Medina originally claimed that he killed Josh Sutter out of self-defence, but later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
TMZ reports that Medina appeared in court yesterday where he was handed the maximum sentence of six years imprisonment. Had he been charged with murder, he could have been jailed for 26 years to life.
The incident occurred in January 2015 and allegedly started with an argument between Medina and Sutter over how Medina’s girlfriend had parked her car. As the argument became heated, Sutter is said to have forced his way into Medina’s bedroom, where Medina allegedly stabbed him several times with a samurai sword he kept by the door.
During a hearing last October, prosecutors played Medina’s 911 call following the incident, which hears him saying: “Damn it, Josh. Why did you do this, man? Why did you make me do this?”
Meanwhile, the rebooted Power Rangers movie became a commercial failure after netting a worldwide gross of $67.4 million, against a production budget of $100 million.
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