NEW BEDFORD - A North Attleboro man was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences without chance of parole for fatally stabbing two friends at his home in 2019 on the 21st birthday of one of the slain men.
David Linton reported in Thursday’s edition of The Sun Chronicle that Daniel Randall, 23, was also sentenced to consecutive 18- to 20-year prison terms for stabbing a third man who was trying to stop the attack and was left with permanent scars to his face.
Judge Thomas J. Perrino handed down the sentence in New Bedford Superior Court after a jury found Randall guilty of the attacks.
They deliberated for about six hours over two days. Randall, who was 19 at the time of the August 29, 2019 killings, did not look back at his family in the front row as a court officer led him out of the courtroom.
Prosecutors said he stabbed Aidan Hanrahan, who turned 21 that night, severing his carotid artery.
Randall then stabbed Joshua Lemken, 21, in the chest and back. Lemken died later at Rhode Island Hospital.
The third victim, Erik Lundstedt, 21, testified he was stabbed in the stomach, back, face and head and survived after wrestling the knife away from Randall and calling 911.
Although Lundstedt said the attack was unprovoked, Randall testified he stabbed the men after they attacked him. He said Hanrahan previously gave him $213 for marijuana and spending money and wanted the money back that night.
Randall slumped down in his chair after the jury of five men and seven women rendered the verdict.
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