Grad Student Testifies in His Murder Trial
A Harvard graduate student accused of stabbing a teenager to death testified that he was being brutally beaten by two men and feared for his life when he pulled his knife.
Alexander Pring-Wilson, 26, dropped to one knee in front of the Cambridge jury to reenact the street fight in April 2003 that resulted in the death of Michael Colono, an 18-year-old cook.
Pring-Wilson is on trial for first-degree murder in a case that has highlighted long-simmering tensions between working-class residents of Cambridge and students at the elite school.
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