Jury picked in murder trial of Harvard student
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — AP — Jury selection was completed Wednesday in the trial of a Harvard graduate student from Colorado accused in the killing of an 18-year-old Cambridge man.
Alexander Pring-Wilson, 26, is charged with murder in the April 12, 2003, stabbing death of Michael Colono during a street fight.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — AP — Jury selection was completed Wednesday in the trial of a Harvard graduate student from Colorado accused in the killing of an 18-year-old Cambridge man.
Alexander Pring-Wilson, 26, is charged with murder in the April 12, 2003, stabbing death of Michael Colono during a street fight.
Prosecutors say the fight started after Pring-Wilson overheard Colono make a remark about him “staggering” down the street as Pring-Wilson walked home from a night of drinking and dancing with friends.
Colono was waiting in a car for his pizza order when Pring-Wilson walked by.
Pring-Wilson says he stabbed Colono in self-defense.
Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for Monday in Middlesex Superior Court.
Pring-Wilson is the son of two Colorado attorneys: Cynthia Pring, a former deputy district attorney in Colorado Springs, and Ross Wilson, a prominent defense attorney.
An honors graduate of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Pring-Wilson was studying for his master’s degree in Russian and Eurasian Studies, and planning to go on to law school. He took a leave of absence from Harvard after his arrest.
