Arrested: April 12, 2003.
Charged with 1st degree murder.
Pring-Wilson, at the time a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is accused of stabbing to death Cambridge teen Michael D. Colono, 18, during an early morning altercation.
According to police reports, Pring-Wilson was walking home from a night out with friends when he and the victim, who he did not previously know, began sparring verbally. Police say that Pring-Wilson then fatally stabbed Colono with a pocket knife that the Colorado native was carrying.
While Pring-Wilson originally told police he was an innocent bystander, he was later arrested at his Somerville apartment. He now argues, through his lawyer, that he acted in self-defense.
Last May, Pring-Wilson was freed on $400,000 bail and remains under house arrest at his apartment.
A trial is scheduled for September.