A deadly incident in a Boston suburb Saturday is being investigated as a hate crime after detectives found “troubling white supremacist rhetoric” written in the suspect’s handwriting. Nathan Allen, 28, allegedly stole a box truck and crashed it into a Winthrop home, then shot and killed two people before he was shot dead by Winthrop …
A 23-year-old Massachusetts man faces several charges stemming from an incident on Saturday while he was “playing” with gun he didn’t know was loaded and “accidentally” shot a 15-year-old girl. Michael Tate was arrested after police rushed to the residence where the shooting took place. Lynn police say their investigation thus far indicates an accident. …
A Massachusetts police officer and the Worcester teenager he was trying to save both drowned Friday afternoon at a pond in Green Hill Park. Police were called to the scene at about 1:30 p.m., Worcester Police Chief Steven Sargent said, and found three people struggling in the pond, particularly one boy in the center, MassLive …
A 60-year-old Massachusetts woman was found dead in a Cape Cod apartment on Friday, and her son has been charged with her murder, NBC10 Boston reports. Police responded to the Mashpee Village residential community shortly after 11 a.m. after they received several reports of a disturbance outside an apartment. They found Andrew Baily, 26, “acting …
US Marshals shot and killed Luis Zaragoza earlier this month while trying to take him into custody. His cell phone also provided ‘turn by turn’ directions to Jalajhia Finklea’s body.
A body found in a field off Interstate 95 in Florida is believed to be that of Jalajhia Finklea, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe last seen getting into a rented car driving by Floridian Luis Zaragoza on October 20 — the day before her 18th birthday — in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Boston.com reports. …
A vacationing Massachusetts police officer watched from his boat on Lake Winnipesaukee as an ultralight plane crashed into the New Hampshire lake Sunday afternoon and jumped into action, the Stoneham, Massachusetts, Police Department said, ultimately bringing the 78-year-old pilot to safety as his plane sank to the bottom. Joe Ponzo, a 23-year-veteran of the Stoneham Police …
An estranged husband drove to the home he once shared with his wife Saturday morning and shot her death, then turned the gun on himself, WBZ reports. Joshua Pereira, 31, had recently moved out of the couple’s Somerset home, investigators said, but he drove back to the house Saturday morning before 8 a.m. A relative …
A Massachusetts man is facing a slew of criminal charges for allegedly killing his family’s pet Chihuahua Monday. Weymouth police officers responded to a local apartment building following reports that Shykeim Basden, 19, had killed a dog. MassLive reported that after a witness told officers that Basden killed a small dog named CoCo, a family …
A Massachusetts woman missing since Thursday was found dead late Saturday night, and now her urologist husband has been charged with her murder. Kathleen McLean, 45, was found in an outdoor area near her home, the Dover-Sherborn Press reported. Ingolf Tuerk, 58, was arrested and charged with murder, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. …
An Ohio man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting an 8-month-old infant. In a statement posted to Facebook, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said Zachariah Wicker, 21, was arrested the same day they executed a search warrant at a residence in York Township. The warrant was reportedly part of an ongoing investigation into …
Police in Massachusetts are looking for a woman who allegedly sprayed Lysol disinfectant in a Walmart cashier’s eyes late last month. The Leicester Police Department said in a Facebook post that the unidentified suspect assaulted the cashier on March 27 after being informed that there was a limit on how many cans of disinfectant she …
