Girlfriend arrested with charges of killing her boyfriend in Pleasanton home, police say

PLEASANTON, Calif. ( KRON ) – Kennedy Stith initially claimed her boyfriend, Edevion White, had been murdered by a pair of robbers in their Pleasanton home in 2023.

After a year-long investigation, however, Lieutenant Erik Silacci with the Pleasanton Police Department told KRON4 the girlfriend’s claims were “untrue.”

White, 32, originally from Tennessee, was killed in his home at the 5700 block of Owens Drive on May 1, 2023.

Stith, 27, his girlfriend whom he lived with at the time, had called the police, claiming a pair of robbers in ski masks had stabbed and killed White during the alleged home invasion.

Police arrived to find White with an apparent stab wound to the chest. PPD investigators believed that White “knew the assailant.”

After a year-long investigation and seeking the public’s help in what they claimed to be an unsolved homicide case , detectives determined Stith’s claims were “untrue…  The victim and the suspect were known to each other.”

On Thursday, Stith was arrested and booked into Santa Rita Jail for homicide.

“The City of Pleasanton extends its heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Edevion White,” PPD said.

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