Barrington grad sentenced to 18 years for New York murder

A Barrington High School graduate was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison for the strangulation of a young woman he met near a park in New York two years ago.

Maxwell Sherman, 20, pleaded guilty in April to a charge of second-degree murder in the strangulation and beating death of 18-year-old Long Island native Lauren Daverin in August 2013, according to a release from the Nassau County district attorney's office.

"Because of the coldblooded brutality of this crime, it is just that Maxwell Sherman pay a heavy price for tragically and inexplicably cutting Lauren Daverin's life short," acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said in the release. "It is my fervent hope that today's sentence gives Lauren's loved ones a small amount of closure and peace."

Sherman was best described as a transient student at Barrington Unit District 220, spokesman Jeff Arnett said at the time of the murder in 2013.

"It's my understanding that the family had multiple residences out of state, New York being one of those," Arnett said. "They relocated periodically."

He said Sherman attended partial years at Arnett C. Lines Elementary School during second and third grade, attended a portion of his eighth-grade year at Barrington Middle School's Station Campus, and attended Barrington High School for the fall semester of his senior year in 2012.

However, Arnett said Sherman obtained enough transfer credits to receive a high school diploma from Barrington District 220 in January 2013.