Legendary Wrestling Champion Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka Has Been Charged With 3rd Degree Murder

Legendary Wrestling Champion Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka
 Has Been Charged With 3rd Degree Murder 

BHR Hollywood Reports.............Legendary pro-wrestling villain Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was busted in Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the 32-year-old murder of his Brooklyn girlfriend in a motel near Allentown, authorities said.

Officials in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania say the 72-year-old will be charged with 3rd degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

 

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The wrestler; known for his high-flying kicks in the ring ,first told a cop and four others at the scene that he had shoved Argentino to the ground earlier in the day and that she had hit her head, according to police interviews obtained by The (Allentown) Morning Call.

But he quickly changed his story, insisting that all five had

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misunderstood him and that the victim had slipped and hit her head after they stopped by the roadside to urinate.

Snuka, 72, was busted Tuesday morning at his home in Waterford Township, New ​Jersey, and charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, according to Lehigh County DA Jim Martin.

He was ordered held on $100,000 bail and sent to the county jail.

One of Argentino’s sisters, Louise Argentino-Upham, said she​’s believed Snuka was guilty from the start.