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Watertown teen stalked, harassed classmate for months before hatchet attack, court records show

The 16-year-old Watertown boy accused of trying to murder a female classmate with a hatchet this week had been stalking and harassing the girl since the beginning of the school year, new court documents reveal.

Julian Frantzis made the girl, a fellow junior at Watertown High School, feel uncomfortable and she rebuffed his advances.

But on Wednesday, Frantzis appeared at the back door of her home and hunted her down inside her bedroom, where he tried to order her to undress and seriously cut her all over her body with a hatchet and machete before he was chased by a family member out the bedroom window, according to police records unsealed late Friday afternoon.