A man convicted of fatally stabbing his sister's ex-boyfriend in Chula Vista , then fleeing the country, was sentenced Wednesday to 51 years to life in state prison.

Raymond Lynde , 33, was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Chula Vista jury earlier this year for stabbing 23-year-old Ariel Burquez 28 times outside a Rancho Drive apartment complex.

According to trial testimony, Burquez had dated Lynde's sister for about six months, but after the relationship ended, he was accused of firing a gun at her weeks before he was killed.

Lynde then "ambushed" Burquez on July 18, 2020, got rid of the murder weapon and his bloody clothes, and took off for Mexico, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office said. Mexican authorities located and arrested him in 2022.

Though he admitte

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