Police checking on a speech therapist’s wellbeing found her dead in the basement of her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where her son charged police officers investigating the home armed with a knife, prosecutors said Tuesday. The officers shot the 23-year-old man, who remains in intensive care after surgery at a local hospital, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at a…
Police checking on a speech therapist's wellbeing found her dead in the basement of her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where her son charged police officers investigating the home armed with a knife, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The officers shot the 23-year-old man, who remains in intensive care after surgery at a local hospital, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at a news conference hours after the incident took place. The woman, identified as 61-year-old Pamela Wood, was"obviously deceased" when firefighters who entered the home with the officers discovered her body. She had"multiple traumatic injuries," some of which seemed consistent with the knife that the man, Timothy Martin, wielded on officers.
Martin, who didn't live at the home and wasn't known to be there, is expected to be charged later Thursday, Ryan said. Police were called to the home on Otis Street Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. after Wood failed to appear for an appointment with a student, Ryan said. Her family was contacted, but they didn't have a key to get into the building when they went to check on her, so they contacted police. A school resource officer also went to the home.
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