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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.
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