{"id":257337,"date":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257337\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","slug":"former-bar-bouncer-sentenced-for-fatally-punching-a-patron-in-2022-in-philadelphias-gayborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257337\/","title":{"rendered":"Former bar bouncer sentenced for fatally punching a patron in 2022 in Philadelphia&#8217;s Gayborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 1, 2026 1:41PM<\/p>\n<p>Former bar bouncer sentenced for fatally punching a patron in 2022 in Philadelphia&#8217;s Gayborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A former bouncer convicted of killing a bar patron outside a club in the Gayborhood, was sentenced to up to five years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kenneth Frye was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the punching death of 41-year-old Eric Pope, outside of the former Tabu lounge and sports bar, 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Frye was working at the bar, when Pope was removed for being intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors said Frye punched Pope, who then fell backward and hit his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He died days later.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 1, 2026 1:41PM Former bar bouncer sentenced for fatally punching a patron in 2022 in Philadelphia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109385,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-257337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-109385","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}