People v. Lengyel

Defendant, then age 22 who lived in a one-bedroom apartment with his father, then age 55, got into verbal altercation and then physical altercation with his father. Defendant punched his father with his fists; he died two days later after suffering a stroke. Proof failed to sufficiently establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Defendant knowingly or intentionally killed his father. Defendant acted recklessly, so his actions were involuntary manslaughter, not second-degree murder.(PUCINSKI and MASON, concurring.)