THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 21, 1996 TAG: 9610210068
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Briefs
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: 32 lines
A man who punched a fellow party-goer at the Oceanfront on Saturday was charged with manslaughter Sunday after the assault victim died, police said.
Nathan W. Albertson, a 20-year-old Marine from Texas, was at a party in an Oceanfront hotel before dawn Saturday when he got into an argument with another man, police spokesman Lou Thurston said. Albertson and 21-year-old Christopher R. Carpenter went outside to the settle the disagreement. Then, Carpenter hit Albertson, Thurston said.
Albertson's girlfriend, who was also at the party, found Albertson lying in the parking lot. With the help of a security guard, the woman sat Albertson in the back seat of her four-door Saturn and drove home, Thurston said.
When the woman pulled into the driveway of her Kempsville home, she couldn't wake her boyfriend, she told police. And because of Albertson's size, she couldn't carry him inside. So she covered him with a blanket and left him to sleep in the car, Thurston said.
Hours later, when she went to check on him, she found Albertson dead.
Carpenter, of the 3300 block of Holly Road, is being held in jail without bail.
An autopsy is scheduled for today to try to determine exactly how Albertson died. According to police, Albertson was assigned to the Naval Security Group Activity Northwest in Chesapeake. -Staff reports
KEYWORDS: ARREST MANSLAUGHTER by CNB