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BINGHAMTON, New York – A graduate student from Saudi Arabia, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, has been charged with fatally stabbing a Binghamton University anthropology professor to death.

Al-Zahrani, 46, was charged Saturday with murder in the death of 77-year-old Richard T. Antoun. The professor was stabbed in his campus office Friday, and the weapon was later recovered, authorities said. A roommate, Souleyman Sukho said over the weekend that Al-Zahrani came at him with a blade during the three weeks they shared an apartment with a third student, Luis Pena.

Sukho and Pena said they never heard their roommate mention Antoun, who was a professor with the anthropology department, where Al-Zahrani was working on a dissertation about early Arabic culture.

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