Washington Teen Convicted of Stabbing Playmate to Death
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A boy convicted of stabbing a playmate to death when he was 12 years old was sentenced Monday to the maximum 26 years in prison.
A jury convicted Evan Savoie, now 15, of first-degree murder for the 2003 stabbing death of 13-year-old Craig Sorger, a developmentally disabled playmate. Despite Savoie's youth, prosecutors tried him as an adult.
Savoie's attorneys have said they will appeal the verdict.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Grant County Superior Court Judge Ken Jorgensen sentenced Savoie to the maximum term.
Savoie has repeatedly proclaimed he is innocent. He said Craig fell from a tree while they were playing and that he left him injured — without a pulse — on a wooded trail but didn't kill him.
The key to the prosecution's case was the testimony of Jake Eakin, another playmate who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder by complicity last year, two years after Craig's death. He is serving 14 years in prison.