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Man Sentenced In Attack With Pipe

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 30, 2008

DADE CITY - A former taxi driver was sentenced to 40 months in prison Monday for fatally beating a man with a metal pipe two years ago.

David John Trombley, 29, pleaded guilty to a charge of unnecessary killing to prevent an unlawful act, a second-degree felony.

He will get credit for the nearly two years he spent in the county jail awaiting trial.

Trombley was charged in the death of 43-year-old Joe Francis Burke, who died March 23, 2006, 10 days after Trombley struck him with the pipe during a fight at a Zephyrhills mobile home park.

Witnesses told investigators that Burke and another man, Chris Parz, were fighting. Burke swung a wrench at Parz, and Parz swung a club at Burke. Neither connected. That's when Trombley hit Burke with the pipe.

When Pasco County sheriff's deputies responded, Burke told them he had only a small cut on his side. The next morning, he checked himself into Florida Hospital Zephyrhills, where he died.

Trombley was charged two months later.

Todd Leskanic

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