CRIME & SAFETY
Police respond to crash involving multiple cars on I-95 in Mansfield
(WJAR) — Police responded to a crash involving multiple cars on I-95 late Tuesday night. The crash happened around 11:00 p.m. on the southbound side. Crews worked around two vehicles with significant damage. One of them left the road. Police have yet to release additional details. This story will...
Focus turns to demeanor of girlfriend charged in Boston officer's death on second day of trial
BOSTON (AP) — The demeanor of a Massachusetts woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend and the words she uttered at the crime scene were the focus Tuesday on the second day of her trial. Karen Read has been charged with second degree murder and other charges in the 2022 death of Officer John O’Keefe. The 16-year veteran of the Boston police was found unresponsive outside a Canton home. He was taken to the hospital and, hours later, pronounced dead. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of hyperthermia and blunt force trauma. Read has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Testimony from two police officers and two firefighters who arrived on the scene early Jan. 29, 2022, described a chaotic scene in which O’Keefe was laying face up and Read was attempting to give him CPR. She had blood on her mouth, possibly from giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. They described Read as distraught and screaming and that O’Keefe had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. They also described interactions with Read, in which she made statements that appear to implicate her in O’Keefe’s death.
Massachusetts Kidnapping Suspect Arrested In Rhode Island
The suspect wanted for an assault and kidnapping in Massachusetts has been taken into custody in Rhode Island. Forty-one-year-old Jamaine Johnson allegedly choked his girlfriend in a domestic incident, stole her car and took off with their six-month-old child. He reportedly threatened to harm himself and the child. Overnight Tuesday,...
Sandra Birchmore Was Allegedly Assaulted by Three Police Officers — Then She Took Her Own Life
According to The Marshall Project, in 2014 Sandra Birchmore's mother wrote a letter to the leader of their local Explorer program to thank him for the work he was doing. Birchmore had signed up for the youth program that matched kids with local police in 2010 when she was 13 years old. Four years later, she was a different person, but not for the reasons her mother might be thinking. On Feb. 4, 2021 Birchmore's body was found in her Canton, Mass. apartment. The cause of death was apparent suicide. It would later be revealed that Birchmore had been victimized...
Jury sees 'graphic' video of Rock St. convenience store shooting; murder suspect on trial
FALL RIVER — Fifteen jurors were presented images of a disturbing scene caught on surveillance video inside the Stop N Save convenience store on Rock Street. It showed 54-year-old owner Lal Kishor Mahaseth being gunned down during a robbery by a man disguised head to toe in black in October 2021.
Tractor-trailer rollover in Pawtucket stops traffic on I-95
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — Traffic was backed up Wednesday morning after a tractor-trailer rolled over on I-95 in Pawtucket. I-95 South at East Street was closed while police investigated the scene around 9:30 a.m. The Rhode Island State Police Department reported the highway was reopened around 11:30 a.m. ABC...
Massachusetts man plows truck into stone wall, sign, fence, through ice cream shop parking lot
“On 04/28/2024 at approximately 1927 hours Bellingham Police responded to the area of Pulaski Blvd by Hilltop Farms for a motor vehicle crash. Arriving officers discovered a 2020 Ford F350 operated by Robert Marcoux, 38 of Bellingham had come to rest in the Hilltop Farms lot. The initial investigation shows that the operator was traveling northbound at a high rate of speed. The operator side swiped a second vehicle that was traveling southbound near Pool Pro. The truck then left the right side of the roadway and impacted a stone wall and sign in the Pool Pro parking lot. The truck continued through the Chevy’s Ice Cream lot striking stationary objects along the way. The truck narrowly missed an occupied vehicle that was parked at Chevy’s then continued through a chain link fence across the Hilltop Farms parking lot.
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