Wellesley student ordered held in MIT stabbing case

A Wellesley College student, who allegedly broke into her ex-boyfriend's MIT dorm room and stabbed him while he slept, has been ordered held without bail.

A judge decided Anna Tang should remain in police custody following a dangerousness hearing Wednesday.

Tang faces charges of armed assault with the intent to murder and home invasion, after she allegedly obtained a key to her ex's dorm room at MIT, and stabbed him seven times in the back, neck, arm, chest and leg.

According to police reports, Tang and MIT sophomore Wolfe Styke had dated for eight months and broke up about three weeks before the incident.

At 6:30 a.m. Oct. 23, Cambridge Police responded to Styke's dorm at 500 Memorial Drive, for a report of a stabbing, and found Styke in the doorway of his room, "bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds."

Police said they found Tang standing down the hall from Styke's room, her jacket and backpack covered in blood and a folding buck knife in her backpack. Tang, who had been taking classes at MIT, told police that she had gained access to the dorm at around 12 a.m., and that in the hours before she entered Stykes' room she "read for a while" and "took a nap."

A security guard, who knew the two were dating but not that they'd broken up, reportedly gave her a key to Stykes' room, according to police reports.

Tang, according to a Harvard Web site, was a summer student at the Surgical Planning Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Originally from South Bend, Ind., she is currently completing her bachelor's degree in computer science at Wellesley College and had been working at MIT's Department of Computer Science.

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The next hearing is scheduled on Dec. 3 for a pretrial conference in Cambridge District Court.</span>