SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - Anthony DeMayo, 18, of Lynn, will be in court Monday, as prosecutors plan to challenge a judge’s ruling claiming he is not fit to stand trial.
Prosecutors said DeMayo confessed to police that he broke into a home on Amherst Street in Danvers and stabbed Janet Swallow to death while she was in bed.
DeMayo was initially spotted walking through Lynn carrying a large, bloody knife when neighbors called 911. Prosecutors told the judge cellphone data from DeMayo’s phone placed him at the Danvers home where Swallow’s body was found.
Swallow was a mother of two sons.
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