Guilty plea in '04 stabbing death of teen in Somerville

By Globe Staff

A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder today for the fatal stabbing of a teenager during a fight in Somerville in 2004.

Van Gustave was sentenced in Middlesex Superior Court in Lowell to mandatory life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.'s office.

Gustave admitted that he and a friend got into an argument with Ryan Sullivan, 16, and a few of his friends on Warwick Street on July 1, 2004. The argument escalated, and Sullivan was stabbed to death.

Gustave's friend, Joseph Spinucci, was convicted last year of first-degree murder in connection with the killing.

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