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Daughter of Bush-era Cabinet official charged with murder in Maryland
Public Safety
Daughter of Bush-era Cabinet official charged with murder in Maryland
By Dan Morse
Feb. 14, 2020 at 9:28 p.m. EST
The daughter of a former U.S. director of national intelligence was charged with first-degree murder Friday amid allegations she stabbed an acquaintance in the neck in Rockville.
Sophia Negroponte, 27, was being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center in the killing of Yousuf Rasmussen, 24. According to charging documents, after stabbing Rasmussen, Negroponte yelled “I’m sorry,” removed the knife, and pleaded for him not to die. She is the daughter of John Negroponte, who in 2005 was appointed the nation’s first intelligence director by President George W. Bush.
“We love her deeply,” Diana Negroponte, Sophia’s mother, said in a brief interview Friday.
Sophia was one of five children the couple adopted in Honduras when John Negroponte served as a diplomat there in the 1980s.
“She was trying to live on her own and attend college,” her mother said. “And she has our total support.”
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Dana Hedgpeth and Clarence Williams contributed to this report.
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Follow
Daughter of Bush-era Cabinet official charged with murder in Maryland
By Dan Morse
Feb. 14, 2020 at 9:28 p.m. EST
The daughter of a former U.S. director of national intelligence was charged with first-degree murder Friday amid allegations she stabbed an acquaintance in the neck in Rockville.
Sophia Negroponte, 27, was being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center in the killing of Yousuf Rasmussen, 24. According to charging documents, after stabbing Rasmussen, Negroponte yelled “I’m sorry,” removed the knife, and pleaded for him not to die. She is the daughter of John Negroponte, who in 2005 was appointed the nation’s first intelligence director by President George W. Bush.
“We love her deeply,” Diana Negroponte, Sophia’s mother, said in a brief interview Friday.
Sophia was one of five children the couple adopted in Honduras when John Negroponte served as a diplomat there in the 1980s.
“She was trying to live on her own and attend college,” her mother said. “And she has our total support.”
{snip}
Dana Hedgpeth and Clarence Williams contributed to this report.
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Follow
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One of my daughters attended school with one of their kids, not Sophia but a boy.
