A Silver Spring, Maryland, man faces up to 40 years in prison after he was convicted of second-degree murder in Montgomery County Circuit court.
Prosecutors said Denzel Kasaka, 23, spent the day of June 14, 2020, following his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, Jose Augusto Ruiz, 20, tracking them first on social media and then in real life.
That same day, Kasaka sent a text saying in part, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not gonna end well.鈥�
At around 10 p.m. that night, Kasaka who had followed the couple to Ruiz鈥檚 home in Silver Spring, confronted him, and the two got into a fistfight.
At some point, Kasaka went back to his car and got a knife. Prosecutors said he stabbed Ruiz, who later died at an area hospital.
Kasaka is scheduled for sentencing on Feb. 18, 2022.
