Teen faces sentencing for fatal stabbing inside high school
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut teenager is facing sentencing for fatally stabbing a classmate at their high school on junior prom day in 2014.
Nineteen-year-old Christopher Plaskon is scheduled to be sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday in Milford Superior Court.
Plaskon pleaded no contest to murder in March in the killing of 16-year-old Maren Sanchez inside Jonathan Law High School in Milford on April 25, 2014. His family and friends have said he was upset that Sanchez turned down his prom invitation.
Plaskon's attorneys had said he showed signs of psychosis and they considered an insanity defense.
Sanchez's parents have filed a lawsuit accusing the school system of negligence, saying she told a guidance counselor that Plaskon was troubled and capable of hurting others. School officials have declined to comment.