CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Wellesley College student is being held pending a dangerousness hearing after being accused of stabbing her former boyfriend as he slept in his college dormitory.
Anna Tang, 20, pleaded not guilty to charges of armed assault with intent to murder and home invasion in connection with the incident early Tuesday morning, said Corey Welford, a spokesman for the Middlesex District Attorney's office.
Prosecutors said the victim was a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was brought to Massachusetts General Hospital where he was reported in serious condition after being stabbed several times.
The Boston Herald said the victim was identified by his father as Wolfe Styke, a computer science and physics major from Freeland, Wash.
Assistant District Attorney Suzanne Kontz said during Tang's arraignment in Cambridge District Court that the woman sneaked into her former boyfriend's dorm room and plunged a knife into his back as he slept.
The man woke up and tried to fight his attacker off, but she continued to stab him, Kontz said. At one point, Kontz said Tang lost her grip on the knife and reached for another she had with her.
Police later found the suspect in the dorm building, her jacket covered with blood and a black "buck" knife in her backpack. authorities said.
Tang's attorney, John Valerio, did not immediately return an after-hours call seeking comment.
He told The Boston Globe that Tang is a "meek and mild mannered" young woman who had been taking classes at MIT.
Prosecutors said Tang began sending her former boyfriend threatening e-mails after they broke up three weeks ago.
Tang was ordered held without bail until the Oct. 30 dangerousness hearing.
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