Husband held for trial in beating death of Somali wife in City Heights‏

Two sisters of a Somali immigrant living in City Heights testified Friday that, before her beaten body was found last year, her husband threw around accusations that she had made a video in which he was sexually assaulted.

Moxamed Abdiaziz Kherow, 46, is charged with murdering his 36-year-old wife, Muna Salad Kuri, nearly one year ago. According to an investigator, Kherow said the man who assaulted him killed his wife and took him across the border.

A preliminary hearing was held Friday for the prosecution to present evidence against Kherow. At the end, San Diego Superior Court Judge Joan Weber found evidence sufficient to send Kherow to trial on a charge of murder and an allegation he used a weapon.

Deputy Public Defender Chelsea Kopp verified the spelling of her client’s name. It has been listed by the District Attorney’s Office as Mohamed Abdiaziz Kerow and by the county jail as Abdi Aziz Kerow.

Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Bethann Schaber testified that Kuri died of blunt-force blows to her head that caused skull fractures “too numerous to for me to draw” on a diagram shown in court.