Steven Odegard is facing a murder charge in the Jan. 17 stabbing death of 20-year-old Daniel Yakovleff

Steven Odegard is facing a murder charge in the Jan. 17 stabbing death of 20-year-old Daniel Yakovleff. Prosecutors say Yakovleff was found dead with multiple and severe stab wounds in Odegard's bed in the apartment Odegard occupied at the time on Tuttle Street in Dorchester."The tragedy of Daniel's death was felt throughout the community and it is vitally important that the person responsible be held accountable," Police Commissioner Edward Davis said in a statement.Suffolk County prosecutors led a grand jury investigation for 11 months that included testimony from 16 separate witnesses.Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said police went to Odegard's home on Dorchester Avenue to arrest him on a warrant, but he was not home. Wark said Odegard's attorney, John Swomley, has been alerted and that Swomley told police he will advise his client to surrender.
Swomley didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.Once he is in custody, Odegard will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on one count of first-degree murder, prosecutors said.The death of Yakovleff, a gay hairstylist from Roxbury, sent a chill through the city's gay community. Police have said previously that Odegard told them that he was asleep and woke to find Yakovleff dead in a back bedroom.