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Teen charged in stabbing death at Mass. high school
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published January 20, 2007
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death Friday in a hallway at his high school in an affluent Boston suburb, and a classmate was charged with murder after blurting out, "I did it, I did it," authorities said. John Odgren, 16, pleaded not guilty in the killing of 15-year-old James Alenson and was jailed without bail. He was to be tried as an adult. Odgren's attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, said Odgren has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and has been taking medications for many years. The two boys got into a fight at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High in Sudbury, authorities said. Odgren stabbed Alenson with a long knife - once in the abdomen and once in the heart, prosecutor Daniel Bennett said. "The timing of the stabbing strongly suggests that Mr. Odgren planned this premeditated murder," Bennett said. At the hearing, Odgren's parents consoled each other in the courtroom and stared at their son. Paul Odgren is a cell research biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Dorothy Odgren is a nurse, Shapiro said. No one from Alenson's family attended the arraignment.
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