The charges against a man accused of killing a Mass. police sergeant and a 77-year-old woman five years ago have gone to a jury.
Closing arguments concluded Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman in 2018. in July 2018, killings that shocked the South Shore community. Chesna left behind a wife and two young children.evidence and arguments for roughly three weeksThe jury was selected from a pool of residents from Worcester County, but the trial took place in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
Jury selection lasted more than a week, but finally the trial for Emanuel Lopes is set to begin with opening statements Thursday morning.Other officers eventually tracked Lopes down, shooting him in the leg before they could arrest him. and instructed to examine the locations referenced throughout the trial. These include the Queen Anne’s Gate Apartments in Weymouth where Lopes is accused of taking his then girlfriend’s white BMW, the intersection of Main Street and Columbian Street where he allegedly crashed into another vehicle, and Burton Terrace, where the shootings happened.
“As he was passing there were stones flying, a little bit of fishtailing in the car,” Kevin Pearson recalled. “He flew through the red light at Route 139.” “I dialed 911 and I heard what I took to be gunshots. I then laid down immediately and yelled to my wife, Judy, ‘Get down! Get down,’” said Kendall. “My fear was that she would look out the window to see what was going on.”He said he counted four or five gunshots as he lay on the ground. Then he heard shouting outside.
A Weymouth police cruiser pulled into his neighborhood and he said the man threw the rock at Chesna, hitting him in the head and knocking him to the ground.
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