CT. Student Stabbed to death at Connecticut High School on Prom Day

A 16-year-old Connecticut high school student was stabbed to death on Friday morning, and police are investigating whether the 16-year-old male who is suspected of killing her had wanted to take her to the prom, which was scheduled for Friday night.

Jonathan Law High School junior Maren Sanchez was killed in a hallway at the school.

The suspect, also a junior at the school, was charged as a juvenile offender with murder. His name is being withheld because he is a minor, police said.

“The unexpected and sudden loss of our beloved family member Maren Victoria Sanchez is both shocking and devastating,” said her cousin, Edward Kovac of Easton. “Maren should be celebrating at her prom this evening with her friends and classmates. Instead, we are mourning her death and we are trying as a community to understand this senseless loss of life.”

“There was blood on her neck. It was awful,” said Sam Garcia, a junior at the school, as he walked home. “I saw the girl lying on the stretcher when they took her out.”

Police said Ms Sanchez suffered multiple lacerations to her neck, chest and face. Investigators recovered a knife at the scene.

A Jonathan Law senior, Rebecca Golden, said she was on the stairs when she looked down and saw someone on the floor. She said she could only see the legs and thought it was a boy. Several teachers were there and one of them was crying and hysterical, she said.
“I tried to look but they just pushed me out,” she said.

Mr Kovac read a statement from the family to media gathered near the school.
“After a terrible experience like this, we can never forget the lessons about school violence that must be learned from this tragedy. The unprovoked attack on Maren this morning … has resulted in the permanent loss of … a bright light full of hopes and dreams with her future at her fingertips,” he said.

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