CHANDLER, Ariz. – An 18-year-old high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who was himself a former student of hers, police said Tuesday.

Chandler police said 20-year-old Sixto Balbuena told them he never meant to kill Samuel Valdivia. He allegedly told police "the blade went in like going into butter" and that he just wanted to show Valdivia how much he hurt him by sleeping with Tamara Hofmann.

Balbuena, a Navy sailor on leave from California, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder after police found him covered in blood and told them about the killing. He remained jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond on Tuesday and did not yet have a lawyer.

Balbuena found his girlfriend naked and Valdivia in his boxer shorts in the woman's bedroom around 2:40 a.m. Friday, according to police reports and court documents.

Balbuena told police that Valdivia apologized to him before Balbuena began kicking, punching and throwing things at him, according to a police probable cause statement.

Police said Balbuena told them he "wanted to teach the victim a lesson," and stabbed him in the lower side with a kitchen knife, according to the court document. Valdivia later died at a hospital.

He also threw Hofmann to the floor jumped on top of her and demanded to know how long she had been cheating on him, according to the document.

Police said Hofmann taught Valdivia math at El Dorado High School in Chandler and was also Balbuena's teacher when he attended Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe.

A call to both schools was not immediately returned Tuesday. Hofmann's phone number is unlisted.

Balbuena is the one who called 911. He told officers he felt remorse for stabbing Valdivia after seeing him lying on the floor struggling to breathe, police said.

Police spokesman Sgt. Joe Favazzo said Hofmann is being investigated for potential misconduct relative to her involvement with Valdivia.

A 2006 Chandler police report obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday shows that police suspected Hofmann of having a sexual relationship with a then-17-year-old Balbuena.

Both Hofmann and Balbuena denied being in a sexual relationship, and police closed the case.

screams of passion

Cuddles said:

you ain't neva lied

dang.

Chandler's like another fuckin planet sometimes

I bet he wish he had just studied and done his homework for that A.

Happy Hump Day, everyone!

Woah, this is some Dustin Hoffman shit.

sometimes the news reads like a boring script for a television movie.


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its all over the news here... that said part is the woman is fugly... i seen her pic on the news last nite and was like wtf ... she musta has some special mo-jo going on.....

purplekisses said:

V

where the hell was the school in all of this?? you can't tell me they didn't know.
now a kid is dead and the other is a killer.

JustErin said:

SCNDLS said:

When is your ticket to hell scheduled?

where were these female teachers when i was in high school?

i wanna go back

bboy87 said:

Shit I don't know but I'll be saving you and Mutha seats.

SCNDLS said:

Y'anno...?

Damn. Somtimes you just have to let folks go, it REALLY isn't worth the killin'and jail time...all the coochie and pecker to be had in a life, and young folks want to kill over it

Ummm, nawwww.No thanks.


I'm 38 and divorced and am very much in the frame of mind sometimes you just have to let mofos go...if you ain't got no team, ain't no house, ain't no kids, ain't no life INVESTED...um....move right along to the next one to make you happy !

it's a pity that sometimes young love can be a such a trifle...has everybody actin' all kinds of crazy (although I also fault the adult in this situaton for encouraging this bullshit...)