Student Held in Stabbing Death of Counselor
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A 17-year-old student at an alternative high school in Springfield stabbed a counselor to death during an argument in a classroom, authorities said.
The youth, identified as Corey Ramos, ran from the building and was arrested by police about a half-mile away, Hampden County prosecutor William Bennett said. The knife was found behind the school.
The Rev. Theodore Brown, 51, walked to the school nurse’s office but later died at a hospital, Bennett said. He was stabbed five to six times in the stomach and chest.
Bennett declined to say what the two argued about but said “it was not a planned attack.”
Ramos was being held without bail pending arraignment today.
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