People v. Underwood CA2/6

Facts On April 8, 2014, appellant stabbed his cousin, Ahkeem Johnson, to death after Ahkeem told appellant's wife that appellant was having an affair with Ahkeem's girlfriend, Angelique Davillier. Ahkeem learned about the affair two weeks earlier when

1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise stated. he saw text messages on Davillier's phone. When Ahkeem told appellant's wife, Shalani Broadhurst, about it, Broadhurst broke off her relationship with appellant. Appellant denied the affair and told Broadhurst that he sold his phone to a coworker, Ryon Brown, who sent the text messages to Davillier. Appellant asked Brown to corroborate his claim. When Brown met with Broadhurst, Broadhurst called him a liar. On the evening of April 7, 2014, Davillier went to work. Ahkeem's and Davillier's children (ages one and three) were asleep in the apartment. Sometime after 1:00 in the morning, a neighbor, Adrianne Patrick, heard loud booming noises coming from the apartment. It sounded like someone hitting the floor and walls. The noise stopped and someone ran down the kitchen stairs at the rear of the apartment. Earlier that evening, Patrick…