BOSTON, March 27, 2013 – An Everett man was charged with murder and ordered held without bail in the stabbing death last month of 44-year-old Corey Thompson, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

CHRISTOPHER W. POWELL (D.O.B. 5/2/73) of Everett was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court this morning in Thompson’s stabbing death in the South End last month.  Judge Mark Hart Summerville ordered Powell held without bail at the request of Assistant District Attorney Edmond Zabin, chief of the DA’s Homicide unit.

Zabin told the court that Thompson’s body was discovered under the Interstate 93 overpass at the corner of Albany and Traveler streets on Feb. 25.  He had been stabbed approximately eight times, including wounds to the torso and two to the chest. A passerby spotted his remains at about 8:30 that morning and called 911.

The ensuing investigation– led by State Police detectives assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office with the assistance of the Crime Scene Services Section and Troop E units – linked Powell to the scene through video surveillance, witness statements, and physical evidence gathered in the days and weeks that followed. Motive in the incident remains under investigation.

After his arrest yesterday, Powell allegedly made post-Miranda statements admitting that he pulled a knife and stabbed Thompson during a physical altercation, prosecutors said.

Powell was represented by Michael Bourbeau.  He will return to court on April 23.

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