Woman Sentenced to 35 Years in Rockville Murder Stabbing

A Montgomery County judge sentenced Sophia Negroponte, 33, of Washington, D.C., to 35 years in prison for the 2020 killing of Yousuf Rasmussen.

The sentence was handed down in the Montgomery County Circuit Court by Judge Terrence McGann after a jury in November 2025 found Negroponte guilty of second-degree murder during a retrial. Her original 2023 conviction on the same charge had been overturned by the Maryland Court of Appeals…

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