SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) — A Long Beach man has been charged with killing a Saudi Arabian college student whose body was found along a Southern California desert freeway.
Twenty-eight-year-old Agustin Rosendo Fernandez was charged Monday with murder with special circumstances that the crime was committed during a robbery and carjacking and a knife was used.
Prosecutors haven’t decided whether to seek the death penalty.
Fernandez remains jailed and there’s no word on whether he has a lawyer.
He’s charged with killing 23-year-old Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi, who vanished on Sept. 17 from his home near California State University, Northridge, where Alkadi was a student.
Prosecutors say Fernandez met the student on social media where Alkadi was selling a car. He was arrested Thursday — the day that Alkadi’s body was found in the Palm Desert.
