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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A man who told authorities he got into a fight with his college freshman girlfriend over spilled noodles has been convicted of her beating and strangulation death last year in Pennsylvania. Twenty-year-old Gregorio Orrostieta was found guilty on Monday of third-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Karlie Hall at her Millersville University dorm. Authorities say he told police they had been drinking and got into the fight and she fell and hit her head. The defense argued an earlier injury figured into her death. Orrostieta was found trying to administer CPR to his girlfriend after calling 911, but authorities say he was faking that and she had been dead for hours. Prosecutors described Orrostieta as jealous, and say he shoved Hall earlier in the evening at a party.

Man convicted in girlfriend's college dorm beating death