{"id":293287,"date":"2026-09-24T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293287\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:34:08","slug":"man-convicted-of-fatally-stabbing-upper-darby-high-school-student-in-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293287\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of fatally stabbing Upper Darby High School student in April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was convicted Thursday of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/michael-garr-murder-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatally stabbing an Upper Darby High School student<\/a> in 2023, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Weh was found guilty of first-degree murder of 15-year-old Michael Garr, according to Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/michael-garr-drexel-hill-marson-weh-upper-darby-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weh attacked Garr in an &#8220;unprovoked and heinous attack&#8221;<\/a> on April 21, 2023. They said Weh stabbed and slashed Garr 11 times on Bridge Street in Drexel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>During opening statements Tuesday, Rouse said traces of Garr&#8217;s blood were found deep within the handle of a knife used in the attack. Rouse said investigators used video, a bloodstain and other clothing details to connect Weh to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Garr was a sophomore at Upper Darby High School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More people like Michael in this world, we&#8217;d be better off, trust me,&#8221; Michael Garr said of his son earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/joe-holden\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe  Holden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was convicted Thursday of fatally stabbing an Upper Darby High School student in 2023, in Drexel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,1265,28,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-293287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-drexel-hill","tag-pennsylvania","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}