George Washington University grad student guilty in friend’s murder; blamed girlfriend for killing

It wasn’t your girlfriend — it was you.
A George Washington University grad student was convicted of murdering his buddy, losing a shocking bid to blame his sweetheart for the bloody slaughter.
Rahul Gupta, 25, suspected the girlfriend was cheating on him with his high school friend, 24-year-old Mark Waugh, Maryland prosecutors said.
The jealous scholar confronted his longtime friend after a long night of drinking. The two and the girlfriend, Taylor Gould, had been celebrating Gupta’s birthday on Oct. 13, 2013 before returning to his apartment in Silver Springs, Md.
Gupta stabbed and slashed Waugh with a knife while lying next to him as he bled out on the floor, prosecutors said.
He confessed to police who found him covered in blood.
“My girlfriend and my buddy were cheating,” he told cops, according to the Washington Post. “I walked in on my girlfriend and my buddy cheating. I killed my buddy.”
Gupta later claimed he was only covering for Gould, who killed Waugh, a Georgetown law student, in a drunken craze.
Gould who was also bloody claimed she couldn’t remember what happened after the boozy celebration.

Mark Waugh, a Georgetown law student, was stabbed to death in 2013 after celebrating a high school friend’s birthday.

But defense attorneys had to contend with a recorded jailhouse phone call between Gupta and his father.
“Mark and I got into a fight and he tried to get a knife, and then I got a knife,” Gupta told his dad.
Jurors took less than five hours to find Gupta guilty.
He appeared to weep at the verdict, and his mother was treated by medics after apparently going into convulsions, Fox reported.
Waugh’s father remembered his son as bright student who was full of potential.
“Mark’s murder was an evil that we cannot comprehend,” grieving dad Bill Waugh told Fox 5. “A dark evil.”