A CT teenager who fatally stabbed a classmate at their high school on junior prom day in 2014 is scheduled to be sentenced.
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A judge handed down the sentence to 19-year-old Christopher Plaskon in Milford Superior Court. One witness tried to pull Plaskon off of Maren Sanchez, and another witness saw Plaskon discard a bloody knife onto a hallway floor in the school.
While prosecutors said there was evidence from several sources that the attack was prompted by Sanchez’s rejection of Plaskon’s prom invitation, Plaskon’s lawyer, Edward Gavin, said the stabbing wasn’t related to the prom.
First responders performed life-saving measures on Sanchez at the scene, but she died from the wounds to her neck and torso.
The suit states that in November 2013, Maren Sanchez became aware that Plaskon was emotionally disturbed and was “threatening to commit suicide or acts of serious self-harm by cutting himself with a knife”.
The boy’s father and friends told police he was upset after Sanchez, a National Honor Society member involved with theater and other extracurriculars, refused to go to prom with him. “When I was brought to finally see her, she laid like a lifeless angel, my baby lying there with a drip of dried blood on her mouth”.
Staff members and paramedics performed life-saving measures on Sanchez, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterward. In his sentencing hearing on Monday, Sanchez’s mother Donna called her daughter “my partner in crime, my best friend, my greatest joy”. The lawsuit seeks damages over $15,000 from Plaskon, his parents, and the Milford school system.
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School officials have declined to comment on any potential pending lawsuit.
