SAN DIEGO – A man who pushed a fisherman onto sharp rocks in Mission Bay, eventually killing him, has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assaulting another inmate in jail.
The victim, Eric Stephen Nelson, 51, was able to drive himself to a hospital after the 2023 incident, but he passed away 25 days later from blunt force trauma.
Lee Eduardo Orozco, 36, did not use a weapon in the Aug. 24, 2023, incident, but was identified by Nelson in a photographic line-up of six suspects while Nelson was in the hospital, according to testimony in the preliminary hearing…