Thrown Bar Mug Leaves Innocent Bystander Dead

A 23 year old New York man, an innocent bystander, was killed after a bizarre barroom incident across the street from Boston's Fenway Park.

Friends and family say the man just went to the Landsdowne Pub on Friday to see some college friends.

The six-month Wall Street employee hadn't had much time off during the summer, so his boss let him take off Friday to join friends from his college days in Connecticut in Boston.

They gathered at the Landsdowne Pub, but just after midnight shards of glass from a thrown mug hit him and two friends, police said, severing his jugular vein. Police said the man didn't even know the suspect who had been arrested for throwing the glass.

"He didn't know this guy. He didn’t say a word to this guy. There was no indication that he was involved in anything," the victim's father said.

From behind a closed courtroom door, Hector Guardiola, 25, of South Boston, was charged with manslaughter and released on $75,000 bail.

"Mr. Guardiola and two other bar patrons, apparently strangers, had a confrontation over apparently something trivial which escalated to a thrown mug," a prosecutor said.

The victim's two friends, including his former college roommate are recovering from their injuries.

From thebostonchannel.com