A Dorchester man accused of killing a woman in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood over 35 years ago is expected to appear in court Friday.
James Holloman, 65, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning on a first-degree murder…
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One injured in Brighton crash, traffic delays being reported
At least one person was injured in a crash in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood on Friday morning.
The crash was reported around 5:40 a.m. at the intersection of North Beacon Street and Soldiers Field Road.
One person, who was conscious …
Questions remain in trooper’s death, lead investigator still undecided
Questions remain unanswered in the death of a Massachusetts State Police recruit exactly one week ago.
Enrique Delgado-Garcia‘s family is seeking justice, but officials say picking a lead investigator in the case has many challenges.
Exactly one week after Delgado-Garcia’s death, an outside agency still hasn’t been found to investigate. Because the recruit died during a state police training exercise, detectives there can’t oversee the case. Complicating matters is the fact that Delgado-Garcia once worked as a victim witness advocate for the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.
A spokesperson for the district attorney said they have been in discussion with multiple agencies about handing over the case and are waiting to hear back from them so they can make a decision soon.
We know that Delgado-Garcia wound up with serious injuries, including missing teeth, skull damage and a fractured neck. But we still don’t know his cause of death.
As that process lingers, people are questioning what trainees experience at the state police academy and who provides oversight and accountability.
On Thursday, NBC10 Boston caught up with Gov. Maura Healey and asked her for her thoughts on the situation.
as a former ag, former pros and now as governor i want to make sure that we have the very best in terms of instrucion and training at hte academy i’m proud of fact that massachsuetts state polcie academy is top notch in the country. obviously there was a tragic incident with a recruit who lost his life. we don’t know what fully happened here. we’re going to get answers to that
Some of Delgado-Garcia’s family and friends have said they suspect foul play. They are demanding answers, and his family has already retained an attorney.
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Tempers flare at Canton Police Audit Committee meeting
A meeting Thursday in Canton, Massachusetts, became heated as participants discussed how to move forward with an audit of the town’s police department.
Residents voted 903 to 800 for the audit at a special town meeting last year as the Karen Read case divided the town.
Since then, the murder trial against Read ended with a hung jury, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office committed to retry the case, and the Sandra Birchmore case brought even more attention to law enforcement in the town.
Prosecutors accused Read of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, and leaving him to die in the snow in January of 2022. Read argued she was framed in a wide-ranging coverup, and the actions of law enforcement — including members of the Canton Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police — have been heavily scrutinized since the onset of her trial.
Last month, federal prosecutors brought charges against Matthew Farwell, a Stoughton police officer, accusing him of killing Birchmore and staging her Canton apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide. Canton police found her body during a wellness check.
On Thursday, the five members of the Canton Police Audit Committee sat down to discuss the scope of services to help the town decide on a firm to conduct the audit. Some hot button issues discussed include the duration and price of the audit.
Members of the committee openly and passionately disagreed among themselves several times during the meeting. Some community members also voiced their frustrations.
Committee members say they hope to have the bids in by the end of September, and to have a firm get the audit started by November.
Man arrested in Christmas Eve killing at Lawrence nightclub
A man is in custody nine months after he allegedly killed another man at a night club in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Javier-Perez was shot to death at the Energy Lounge on Christmas Eve in 2023.
The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that 27-year-old Franklin Laras of Lawrence was in custody, but did not say where he was apprehended.
In March, the U.S. Marshals announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to Laras’ arrest, noting he was considered armed and dangerous.
In the wake of the shooting, Energy Lounge’s license to operate was suspended
“This decision was made in part due to fact that the matter is under investigation by the Lawrence Police Department and Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office,” Lawrence police said in a statement days after the shooting. “Furthermore, the nature of the incident, with the perpetrator(s) still at large, the Acting Chief has determined that in the interest of public safety, the City must close the establishment and suspend the establishments license to operate until such time that the investigation is complete. This immediate action is being taken on an expedited basis due to the overriding public safety concern.”
Javier-Perez’ girlfriend, Gerimar Maria, previously said she wanted his killer to be caught.
“We want justice,” she said. “We don’t want anyone to get hurt. Just justice.”
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‘Born again’: Woman hit by lightning while walking her dog out of rehab after a year
The nurse who was struck by lightning while walking her dog in Boston last year is telling her story, as she is discharged from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital this morning.
Just over a year since the incident, Thalita Teixeira Padilla has had to learn how to walk all over again. Now, she’s moving to Connecticut, where she hopes to go back to work.
“I am starting to think about the future for the first time in this whole year, and it seems very new, still,” Teixeira said. “It feels like I was born again, it feels like starting a whole new life.”
She was accompanied on Thursday by her family as well as her dog, Bruce, who she was walking when the lightning strike derailed her life on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.
The last thing she remembers from that day in Savin Hill Beach in Dorchester was someone offering a nice comment about Bruce.
“He always gets complimented everywhere he goes, so he got a complement, we stopped — that’s pretty much where it all goes black,” Teixeira said.
She woke up in the intensive care unit, unable “to move even my fingers at the time.”
Teixeira spent more than a month hospitalized at Boston Medical Center in critical condition with a spinal cord injury, nerve damage and burns on her chest and legs, she said.
Her mother, Marcia Teixeira, said it was so hard to witness at first: “I was crying so much because I don’t want to lose my daughter, but she is strong.”
She was transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to continue her long, difficult journey to recovery. But about two months ago, something shifted.
“Something went off like a lightbulb in my head, where I started to feel less pain in my body.”
Teixeira’s main goal was to be able to walk again, and she’s now close to reaching it, moving with the help of a walker and the support of the rehab hospital’s staff.
“It was amazing to watch, she was incredible to work with. She works really hard,” said Norah Sweeney, a physical therapist at Spaulding. “She was not able to walk independently when she came from in-patient and now she is out walking, going places by herself.”
