A man accused of stabbing his friend to death during an argument over a cigarette while listening to the World Series in downtown Redwood City in 2014 has been ordered into a conservatorship until restored to competency, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said.
Jake Monahan was found not competent to stand trial in February after a doctor noted he had declined mentally, the DA’s Office said.
Monahan and Michael Stent, 32, were drinking and listening to the game on a radio with others at Courthouse Square Oct. 28, 2014, when the former asked the latter for a cigarette. Stent declined, and they began fighting near 2216 Broadway, according to prosecutors.
Stent walked away, and Monahan allegedly stabbed him with a folding knife he retrieved from a backpack. Stent, wounded at least once in the back and abdomen, died several hours later during surgery at Stanford Medical Center.
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