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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A former Harvard graduate student was sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for stabbing to death a teen who made fun of him.
Alexander Pring-Wilson, 29, changed his plea in Middlesex Superior Court on Friday as part of a deal with prosecutors that let him avoid a third trial in the death of 19-year-old Michael Colono.
Pring-Wilson, the son of Colorado lawyers, was studying for his master’s degree in Russian and Eurasian studies at Harvard. Colono, a high school dropout, had earned his high-school equivalency diploma and was working as a cook at a Boston hotel when he was killed.
Pring-Wilson testified he acted in self-defense after he was attacked by Colono.
