Charges In Sterling Stabbing Death: DA

STERLING, MA—A 25-year-old Sterling man was held without bail after being arraigned on Monday in Clinton District Court on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Clinton man, according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.

Allen F. Fawe, Wilder Road, Sterling, had previously been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon stemming from a stabbing on Oct. 1 at a party at 16A Wilder Road in Sterling.

The victim, Jeffrey A. Joyce, 39, of 322 Oak St., Clinton, was brought to UMass Memorial Medical Center after the stabbing and died on Oct. 15.

Assistant District Attorney John H. Melander told the court that a preliminary report from the Office of the State Medical Examiner said that the cause of Joyce’s death was sharp trauma wounds. Judge Robert W. Gardner Jr. ordered Fawe held without bail and continued the case to Nov. 21. Fawe had been ordered held without bail by Judge Gardner on Oct. 6 following a dangerousness hearing on the assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charge, said the DA's office.

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