SANTA ROSA (BCN) -- A Windsor man was charged in Sonoma County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon with the involuntary manslaughter of a man he allegedly fought with the night before the victim died.
Arthur Marquez delayed entering a plea and will appear in court July 17. He is being held in the Sonoma County jail under $30,000 bail.
He also faces a violation of probation charge regarding a separate misdemeanor battery case.
Marquez was arrested July 2 for the murder of Dennis Dempsey Jr., 49, of Windsor. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department said the men were in a fight around 9 p.m. July 1 and Dempsey died around 4:30 a.m. July 2.
An autopsy determined Dempsey had suffered bruises on the head and torso and suffered massive abdominal hemorrhage from a lacerated spleen consistent with blunt force trauma.
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