Former diplomat’s daughter found guilty in deadly Rockville stabbing during retrial

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A woman was found guilty during her retrial for killing a man in 2020.

On Thursday, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County found 32-year-old Sophia Negroponte, the daughter of a former diplomat, guilty of second-degree murder after she had fatally stabbed 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen.

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In January 2024, the Maryland Court of Appeals overturned her original second-degree murder conviction.

According to DC News Now’s previous report, the incident happened on Feb. 12, 2020, in Rockville. Police had been called to a home in the 400 block of W. Montgomery Ave. where they found Rasmussen dead there…

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