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Calif. Assembly ex-speaker's son accused of murder
Dec 3 11:26 AM US/Eastern

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SAN DIEGO (AP) - The 19-year-old son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez was arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a college student who was stabbed during a fight in October, authorities said.

After a two-month investigation, Esteban Nunez and three of his friends were arrested Tuesday in the Sacramento area, authorities said. He and friends Ryan Jett, Leshanor Thomas and Rafael Garcia, who are also 19, face charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, San Diego Police Capt. Jim Collins said.

Police allege that the four men got into a fight with the victim, Luis Santos, 22, and four of his friends on Oct. 4 as they left a party near San Diego State University.

Three young men were stabbed and Santos, a student at San Diego Mesa College, died at the scene.

Fabian Nunez, 41, was elected to the Assembly in 2002 and became speaker in 2004. Earlier this year, he and other Democrats pushed a ballot measure that would have revised the state's term limits law and let some incumbents run again. Because that measure failed, Nunez was unable to run for another term last month.

Fellow Democrat Karen Bass was sworn in as the new speaker in May.

During his time as speaker, Nunez cultivated a close relationship with Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that resulted in landmark changes in laws related to global warming and labor.

The four suspects were scheduled to be taken from Sacramento to San Diego on Wednesday. Steve Maviglio, spokesman for Fabian Nunez, said the former speaker would travel to San Diego to be with his son but would have nothing to say Tuesday night.

"He's home with his family and has no comment," Maviglio said.

Arrest warrants for the four men were issued Monday.

"I'm glad they arrested the people involved in my son's murder," Santos' father Fred Santos, who lives in Concord, told the Union-Tribune. "Who these people are, who their parents are, doesn't make the pain less or more. It changes nothing. Nothing can bring my son back."

Esteban Nunez and at least one of the other suspects are college students in the Sacramento area, and had gone to San Diego "to visit friends and party," Collins said. A female witness came forward after the fight and provided information that helped police trace the suspects, Collins said.