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A student at the University of Hartford has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing two of his classmates during a re-enactment of a movie scene for a drama class, police say.

It was said that the three Connecticut students were working together on a group project Sunday afternoon inside a dorm when suddenly one of the members of the group took the assignment too far.

Jake Wascher, a student at the University, is now facing two counts of attempted murder and is now being held on $1 million bail.

They were acting out “a movie scene in which a person(s) gets stabbed, at which point (Wascher) began to stab both victims before fleeing on foot,” Hartford Police stated. Read More