{"id":293731,"date":"2026-09-25T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:46:10","slug":"man-found-guilty-of-fatally-stabbing-15-year-old-upper-darby-high-student-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293731\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of fatally stabbing 15-year-old Upper Darby High student in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Clifton Heights man has been found guilty of murdering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/teenager-stabbed-to-death-upper-darby\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15-year-old Upper Darby High School student Michael Garr<\/a> three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Garr was walking home in Drexel Hill, Delaware County, in August 2023 when he was stabbed multiple times. Police arrested 26-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/suspects-upper-darby-homicides-arrested-charged\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marson Weh a week and a half later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2026\/09\/24\/marson-weh-guilty-in-stabbing-death-of-15-year-old-michael-garr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Delco Times reported<\/a> Weh appeared to confess to the crime in court on Wednesday. He said, \u201cI do apologize. I am the killer of Michael Garr. I am, in fact, guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was caught on a court microphone, but jurors didn\u2019t hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse argued that it should be admitted as evidence. Weh\u2019s lawyer said it should be considered a privileged conversation with his lawyer and should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Rouse ultimately dropped the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The jury deliberated for just half an hour on Thursday before finding Weh guilty. He will be sentenced on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Clifton Heights man has been found guilty of murdering 15-year-old Upper Darby High&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[31,212,2794,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-293731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime","tag-delaware-county","tag-stabbing","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\/293731","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=293731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}