samanaThe man who prosecutors say fatally stabbed an acquaintance on the tennis courts of Mills High School in a dispute over a woman last summer pleaded not guilty yesterday to murder and knife charges.Laungatasi Samana Ahio, 21, is also charged with the special allegation of lying in wait which makes him eligible for life in prison without parole or the death penalty.After entering his plea in Superior Court, Ahio was scheduled for trial March 12, 2012 in the Aug. 4, 2010 death of Jared Afu, 19.
Ahio, then 20, is accused of stabbing Afu several times in the face and neck just before midnight Aug. 4. Authorities found Afu near the tennis courts of the Millbrae high school and soon pronounced him dead but Ahio remained at large until the following evening when he turned himself in to the South San Francisco Police DepartmentEarlier the night of Aug. 4, police said Ahio began following Afu as he walked and smoked with friends. At some point, Ahio and Afu became separated from their respective friends and confronted each other over a “personal issue.” Afu’s friends reported seeing him stabbed by Ahio around 11:30 p.m.The next afternoon, a bloodied backpack containing identification and a bloody knife was discovered a block from the school, on the side of the New Vision United Methodist Church on Chadbourne Avenue.Authorities have suggested Ahio killed Afu over jealousy involving a girlfriend who he was convicted in July 2010 of battering.
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