Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn, III announced that Daniel Randall, a 25-year-old from North Attleborough, convicted in July 2023 of two counts of first-degree murder by deliberation and extreme atrocity and cruelty, mayhem, and armed assault with intent to murder, was resentenced on May 30, 2025, following the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Mattis. The Mattis decision deemed life sentences without parole unconstitutional for emerging adults aged 18 to 20. Randall, 19 at the time of the crimes, was originally sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole and a concurrent state prison term.
Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Perrino resentenced Randall to two consecutive 30-years-to-life terms for the murders, with an 18-to-20-year concurrent sentence for mayhem and armed assault with intent to murder. Judge Perrino noted, “The defendant committed two separate, brutal homicides, and nearly a third but for the knife slipping… Two young men’s lives ended senselessly, and a third’s was permanently altered.”
The case stems from August 29, 2019, when Randall, at his North Attleborough home with 21-year-old Aidan Hanrahan and Hanrahan’s friends, 21-year-old Joshua Lemken and 21-year-old Erik Lundstedt, armed himself with a knife in his bedroom. He stabbed Hanrahan and Lemken to death and chased and repeatedly stabbed Lundstedt, who survived. Randall was apprehended nearby after calling 911, and police recovered the knife outside his home. Assistant District Attorneys Patrick Driscoll and Nathan Kennedy prosecuted the case.
District Attorney Quinn stated, “This is one of the most brutal and senseless cases I’ve seen. Violent murders by those under 21 pose a significant public safety threat. The 60-year sentence before parole eligibility justly punishes the defendant for the murders and near-fatal stabbing, aligning with Mattis and serving as a deterrent.”
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