Funeral services set for Connecticut man stabbed over 30 times in D.C.

July 11, 2015 12:00 am • Last Updated: July 12, 2015 11:25 pm

This photo provided by the Metropolitan Police Department shows Jasper Spires, who has been arrested for first-degree murder while armed for the stabbing death of Kevin Sutherland, 24, the first-ever homicide aboard a Metro train in the nearly 40-year history of the D.C. region’s subway system. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Trumbull, Conn. (AP) — Services have been announced for a southwest Connecticut man killed after he was stabbed on the subway in Washington, D.C ,last week.

The Connecticut Post reports a wake will be held between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday for 24-year-old Kevin Sutherland, of Trumbull, at Abriola Parkview Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the funeral home and a Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Jude Church in Monroe an hour later.

Sutherland was a graduate of Trumbull High Schooll and a former intern for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut. Police say he was robbed and stabbed more than 30 times on a Metro subway car on the Fourth of July.

Police arrested 18-year-old Jasper Spires and have charged him with murder in the attack.

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