Were signs missed in Lauren Astley murder?
(CBS/WBZ) WAYLAND, Mass. - "Why?" It's the question friends, family members and neighbors in Wayland have as they mourn the death of 18-year-old Lauren Astley.
Pictures: Lauren Astley and Nathaniel Fujita
Her ex-boyfriend, former Wayland High School football player Nathaniel Fujita, was ordered held without bail Tuesday in a Massachusetts court after pleading not guilty to murdering Lauren, reports CBS station WBZ..
On Monday, District Attorney Gerry Leone called it a case of teen dating violence.
"This case, like so many other paradigms is about control and about power," Leone told CBS station WBZ.
Northeastern Professor Dr. James Allen Fox says on the surface, Lauren's murder appears to fit into a far-too-common scenario.
"Unfortunately, far too many males have a view that this is their right to maintain a relationship that's broken down. It's the old 'if I can't have you, no one can.' It's the obsession with the relationship; that 'I can't go on without you,'" Fox told WBZ. "There's a sense in far too many men that they want to re-establish control."
Malcom Astley, Lauren's dad, hopes a memorial service planned for July 16 will continue to help people reflect on ways to be better at preventing tragedies like this, and recognize what is going on.
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