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Sentence Handed Down in OC Fistfight Death Case

Don Rush

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) - Two men who pleaded guilty to taking part in a street fight in Ocean City that left a Pennsylvania man fatally injured have been sentenced.

Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Kendall was sentenced to a year in jail, and 28-year-old Caleb Ochse was sentenced to 18 months Thursday in Worcester County Circuit Court.

Thirty-seven-year-old Justin Daniel Cancelliere of North Whitehall, Pennsylvania, was found unconscious in a parking lot on Aug. 24. He died later that day at a hospital.

Prosecutors say Kendall and Ochse were the aggressors in a fistfight with Cancelliere. The two men pleaded guilty to affray, or fighting in public.

The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that Tricia Cancelliere said in court that since her husband's death, her two children can't sleep alone, and bills are piling up.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.
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