Guilty Plea in Bloods Gang Killing of Manassas Park Teen

A Manassas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to accidentally killing a Manassas Park teenager last year, after the charges were reduced from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. 

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Stephon Damont Greene, 20, will receive a sentence in accordance with sentencing guidelines, which call for 1-10 years incarceration.

The plea came one year to the day after the victim, to the head during the March 17 attack on Aspen Place in the City of Manassas.

Authorities said that Greene and another man, Justin Lee Finley, of Gainesville, were members of the Bloods gang and were involved in the killing. 

Manassas City Police Detective A.G. Barahona, a member of the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force, testified at the Tuesday hearing that Greene told him in an interview, "'I didn't intentionally mean to kill that boy. One punch and he fell, boom.'"

Greene, who also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery for an attack on another man that same day, and felony gang participation, will be sentenced on Sept. 26. Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges of criminal gang participation and malicious wounding. 

Finley is still scheduled for a three-day jury trial on murder and other charges beginning July 8.