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BERKELEY (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) ― A 20-year-old Berkeley man was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing a University of California, Berkeley senior earlier in the day along fraternity row just a few blocks from campus — the first murder of a UC Berkeley student in a decade.

Andrew Thomas Hoeft-Edenfield was arrested on charges that he fatally stabbed Christopher Wootton, a 21-year-old engineering student due to graduate this month, in the midst of an argument that started as a verbal exchange and escalated to a physical fight, according to Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.

About 2:45 a.m., police received a report of someone brandishing a knife, and officers responded to the rear of 2421 Piedmont Ave., the Chi Omega sorority house, Kusmiss said.

Officers were then directed to 2434 Warring St., about a block east of the Piedmont address, where they met up with a crowd of about 20 college-aged young men who were circled around Wootton, according to Kusmiss.

Wootton, who had been walking home to the Sigma Pi fraternity house from a party, suffered a stab wound to the left side of his upper chest. He died on the way to the hospital, police said.

http://cbs5.com/local/uc.berkeley.stabbing.2.715287.html
 
Well, looks to me as though he should quit school because no one will hire a person with a degree who gets angry and stabs someone else. :rolleyes:
 
Top UC Berkeley student slain
Wootton was killed just weeks after deciding to stay in Berkeley and attend graduate school at Cal.

He had full-level scholarships to MIT and UC Santa Barbara, but loved his life in Berkeley and had chosen to stay among his dozens of friends, his girlfriend, and his fraternity brothers, a relative said Saturday.

Victim's MySpace. No Gangsta crap - just typical college boy. normal and loving friends.

You'll get wet eyes if you read his blog about "Lying to my Children" Where he talks about his future kids and what he will say to them about his youthful days.

In another blog he relates the story of an earlier weekend where his brother paid him a surprise visit. In "Fighting, Stripping, Blow Job's, and Bro's" he says "You probably know me pretty well if you're reading this and the word fight is most likely a shock to you coming from my weekend story but.... it has happened."

IN CONTRAST, HIS MURDERER:
Seems Hoeft-Edenfieldmight may have had a fighting problem he was fighting...

In a 2006 article about Berkeley High School and it's principal's programs for school improvement:
Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield commented that the creation last year of on-site suspension, instead of sending students home was also a good idea, and that since transferring to Berkeley, he hadn’t gotten into a single fight.
 
"and that since transferring to Berkeley, he hadn’t gotten into a single fight."

Well, I guess if you are going to blow that streak might as well go all the way.
Idiot
 
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A Berkeley resident convicted of the 2008 murder of a UC Berkeley student pleaded no contest Friday, accepting a sentence of 12 years in state prison.

Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, 27, was a student at Berkeley City College when prosecutors say he stabbed Christopher Wootton, 21, in the Chi Omega sorority parking lot in what was described in court documents as an “alcohol-fueled brawl” on May 3, 2008. A UC Berkeley senior and member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, Wootton allegedly grabbed Hoeft-Edenfield from behind, after the latter began waving a pocketknife. The defendant subsequently stabbed Wootton in the heart, fatally wounding him, according to authorities.

Hoeft-Edenfield said he acted in self-defense. In 2010, he was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 16 years to life in prison. The conviction was overturned in April, after his defense attorney Matthew Dalton argued that Hoeft-Edenfield’s former attorney, Yolanda Huang, was inept at criminal law.

Dalton said Huang, who had never tried a murder, did not enter plea negotiations with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office after it offered Hoeft-Edenfield a 12-year sentence in exchange for a manslaughter plea. He said she had a financial motive for not taking the plea bargain because she was representing the defendant and his friend in a separate civil case against the fraternity members who were present the night of the stabbing.

In April, Judge Larry Goodman ruled that Hoeft-Edenfield had been deprived of the right to effective assistance of counsel and overturned the original conviction.
 
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