By GABRIEL PERRY, The Laconia Daily Sun
LACONIA — During his opening statement in the second murder trial of Hassan Sapry on Tuesday morning, state prosecutor Alexander Kellermann told jurors Sapry used knives, forks, a sword, the glass window of an oven and a small television to kill Wilfred Guzman Sr. on an early April morning in 2019.
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