Stephen Freeman, 20, appeared by Zoom video from the jail in front of 41B District Judge Carrie Fuca on his third charge of assaulting a prison employee Feb. 2 at the jail, since his arrest for the fatal strangulation of Gabriele Seitz, 62, in October 2022 in her Utica Road apartment.
Stephen Freeman, 20, a Lexington native, appeared by Zoom video from the jail in front of 41B District Judge Carrie Fuca on his third charge of assaulting a prison employee Feb. 2 at the jail, since his arrest for the fatal strangulation of Gabriele Seitz, 62, in October 2022 in her Utica Road apartment.
Judge Julie Gatti decried Slade and co-defendant Joshua M. Carter’s “lack of respect for human life” and the fact they damaged their own and their families’ lives.