Connecticut - WATERBURY - A 44-year-old Naugatuck man has accepted a plea deal in the beating death of another man who was wearing a T-shirt of a rival motorcycle gang.
Michael Sjaastad (JAH'-stadd) told police he beat 35-year-old Eric Anderson for wearing a T-shirt that supported the Hells Angels motorcycle gang while he was inside a Naugatuck bar known for its support of the gang's rival, the Outlaws.
On Tuesday, Sjaastad, pleaded no contest to a charge of first-degree manslaughter under a plea agreement that calls for six years behind bars.
Sjaastad was charged in the death of Anderson, whose body was discovered in a brook behind the Union Street Station Bar & Grill on Aug. 9, 2007.
Sjaastad is to be sentenced next month in Waterbury Superior Court
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