Akron student pleads not guilty in slaying

Associated Press

AKRON

The attorney for a University of Akron student charged in the fatal stabbing of his roommate at an off-campus apartment says the death wasn’t a murder but an “unfortunate accident.”

Twenty-two-year-old Kendal Scheid, of Norwalk, pleaded not guilty to a murder charge this week in Akron Municipal Court for the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Duncan Unternaher. Police say Unternaher was stabbed in the chest Saturday during an alcohol-fueled argument. He died Monday.