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Article: Man Faces Involuntary Manslaughter Charge
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- February 12, 2003
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Dateline: PONTIAC, Mich.
A man was charged with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday because
the high school classmate he punched in the face died after nearly
nine years in a coma.
The charge against Desmon Venn, 26, stems from the Jan. 7 death of
Zuhair Pattah, 25, at a nursing home in Flint.
Witnesses said Venn punched Pattah in the face during a melee at West
Bloomfield High School on May 2, 1994, and Pattah fell backward, striking
his head on the pavement. The impact severed his brain stem.
Venn's whereabouts are not known. He also faces six outstanding warrants
for drug, driving and other offenses, and he is sought in Fulton County,
Ga., on ...