High School Pal Stabbed Sterling Teen & Hid Body: CT State Police [UPDATED]

COVENTRY, RI — The suspect charged with murdering missing Sterling, Conn., teen Todd Allen led state police to his body today. According to Trooper Kelly Grant, Kevin Weismore, 19, of Sterling, has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence.

He is being held on $1 million bail.

Weismore mug shot

Weismore made a statement to police. He said Allen, whom he knew from high school, was a drug dealer, and Weismore had agreed to sell him marijuana for $500.

However, when the time came to pay, Allen allegedly pulled a silver gun. First, he pointed it at the ground and then at Weismore.

Weismore told police he stabbed Allen several times and hid the body.

He threw the gun on a highway shoulder near an overpass and tossed Allen's helmet and backpack down a well. Later, he and a friend took the dirt bike to a pond in Killingly and submerged it.

Allen's parents said they don't believe he ever had a gun. His father Todd Allen said he and his son were growing marijuana and selling it. They ran out of product at the end of the summer, but the teen continued dealing.

Based on interviews the police developed, the missing teen left home on Dec. 26 to meet Weismore, who was supposed to sell him a quarter pound of marijuana.

Weismore said he usually sold only small amounts, but he ran into his cousin's drug dealer in Woonsocket and was able to obtain a larger than usual amount. He and Allen communicated over Facebook Messenger and then agreed to do the deal in the woods across the street from Weismore's house.

His mother was home, Weismore said, so they had to do the deal outside. He arrived first. After he showed Allen the marijuana, Weismore said, Allen turned and took a gun from his backpack.

Weismore said he hit Allen in the hand holding the gun and also took a folding knife out of his pocket. The silver knife had a three to four inch single edge blade.

"I knifed TJ," he wrote in his statement. He struck first in the stomach and then in the neck "a few times."

Weismore said Allen kept moving, so he stabbed him again.

"TJ fell to the ground," he wrote. "He kept trying to get back up, but he fell again because he died. TJ was breathing and gurgling and there were sounds coming out of him. TJ stopped making any sounds, and I am pretty sure that he stopped breathing."

Weismore dragged his body about 10 feet and hid it behind a pile of rocks, so passing cars would not see. Then he took the gun and walked to the highway connecting I-395 to Route 6 in Rhode Island. He tossed the gun off a cliff overlooking the highway.

Then he went back to the body and confirmed Allen was dead. He took the helmet and backpack and threw them down the well. Then he burned his own clothes, went home and watched tv.

Allen's body was recovered with multiple stab wounds, police said.

Allen left his home in Sterling, Connecticut, at approximately 1 p.m. on Dec. 26. He rode out on his red Honda XR100 dirt bike in an unknown direction. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a camouflage sweatshirt and a backpack.

He did send his girlfriend a message saying he had crashed his bike and hurt his leg, but state police said their efforts to use his cell phone to find him failed because the phone is either turned off or the battery has been drained.

At one point, Rhode Island environmental police joined the search because it was thought Allen might have headed for Coventry, where he liked to ride the trails.

Volunteers in Coventry fanned out across the woods, and police had to rescue two who became disoriented.

Later, the Connecticut state police thought they had identified a location in Killingly, Connecticut, where Allen may have been before he disappeared.

State police said on Jan. 4 they were able to locate his last cell phone activity, which happened at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 26 and "in the general area of Margaret Henry Road in Killingly."

Patch will update this story as information becomes available.