There is a growing phenomenon of acquaintances engaging in MMA-inspired contests in garages and backyards. It doesn’t make you tough, it makes you stupid. Tough is getting up early to run and training at night, with people who get up early to run and train at night. Stupid is drinking and then “doing UFC.”

Mercersburg, Pennsylvania resident Kevin Harold Gryp, 27, was arraigned Tuesday on one count of criminal homicide in the death of his friend Donald David Clark Jr. Court documents show that on June 15, Gryp and Clark, also 27, were drinking and then according to Gryp, “fought, as usual.”

Gryp put Clark in a head scissor and squeezed. Clark became unresponsive, and Gryp called 911 explaining that he just killed his brother. 

Officers arrived on the scene shortly after midnight and found Clark lying on his back in the garage, with bruising over his right eye and on the right side of his jaw.

“I was planning on choking him out I was planning on putting him unconscious,” said Gryp to police. “That was the plan. … Sometimes you have to put them down and make them go to sleep, because they are acting like an a**hole, like alcohol.”

Gryp does not recall how long he held the choke for, and acknowledged he knew a choke held too long could cause hurt.

On August 16 authorities received The autopsy and coroner’s report on August 16, which lead to charges being filed. It listed manner of death as homicide, and cause of death as blunt force trauma to the neck. 

Gryp has been in the county jail since the incident on a parole violation. Bond has not been set on the homicide charge.

Anytime you combine alcohol and any type of fighting, in this case mixed martial arts, that can lead to unfortunate consequences, said Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Brent Miller. This led to somebody’s death and, in fact, a homicide investigation.”

H/T Joyce Nowell for Herald Mail Media