ALFRED, Maine — A Saco resident charged with stabbing a 59-year-old woman to death in a Shaw’s supermarket in Saco is scheduled Thursday to plead guilty to murder in York County Superior Court.
Connor S. MacCalister, 31, does not have a plea agreement with the Maine attorney general’s office, according to defense attorney Robert LeBrasseur of Portland.
He said that the sentencing would be set at a later date.
LeBrasseur declined to comment on why MacCalister decided to plead guilty so early in the process rather than go to trial or negotiate a plea to manslaughter with Assistant Attorney General Leane Zainea, who is prosecuting the case.
Efforts to reach Zainea Wednesday were unsuccessful.
MacCalister was indicted last month by a York County grand jury for the Aug. 19 incident in which Wendy Boudreau was killed.
Police said MacCalister stabbed Boudreau in an apparently random attack near the ice cream freezers just before 3 p.m. that day. Boudreau died later at Southern Maine Medical Center.
The suspect told police Boudreau was targeted because she wouldn’t be able to defend herself, WGME reported at the time.
MacCalister faces between 25 years and life in prison on the murder charge.