Massachusetts State Police

A double fatal shooting in Wareham, Massachusetts, is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide, officials announced. Massachusetts State Police detectives were called by the Wareham Police Department to respond to the incident around 5 p.m. Friday, according to a tweet from Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz. “Preliminarily, it appears to be a murder/suicide,” Cruz wrote on Twitter. The...

A body was found by a fisherman on Martha’s Vineyard Thursday, state police said, that matches the description of a 21-year-old who’s been missing for days, since he and his brother jumped off a bridge between Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. The shell fisherman found the body at the edge of Sengekontacket Pond at about 11:30 a.m., according to Massachusetts...

The case against a former Massachusetts State Police trooper accused of driving drunk in a crash that killed a motorcyclist in Boston last year has moved to superior court with a new indictment this week. Kristopher Carr, 26, of Monson, graduated from the Massachusetts State Police Academy just days before the crash that killed 51-year-old Christopher Zike on Interstate 93…

A woman’s body was found in the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge on Wednesday night after police searched the water for hours, officials said. Massachusetts State Police said their preliminary investigation indicates the woman was seen lying on a ledge of the John W. Weeks Bridge near Harvard University. Witnesses who were walking across the bridge at the...

Poor weather conditions Wednesday prevented a water search from resuming for a man who went missing Sunday night after jumping off the “Jaws Bridge” on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts State Police said, however a trooper did conduct a ground search along the shoreline. The trooper searched on foot and by ATV in the vicinity of the bridge but did not...

The search for the second brother who went missing after jumping off the Jaws Bridge in Martha’s Vineyard has been suspended for the day due to dangerous conditions, state police said Tuesday afternoon. Massachusetts State Police divers and a Marine Unit suspended their search for the second swimmer after 5 p.m. Monday but resumed their search Tuesday morning with...

The brothers’ names haven’t been released, but investigators believe they came to the island to work at a restaurant and were staying in Oak Bluffs.

Two brothers went missing off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard after jumping off the Jaws Bridge in Edgartown overnight, officials said, prompting a search by water and air for much of the day Monday. The body of one of the brothers was found Monday morning, but the other brother remained missing into the afternoon, and both Massachusetts State Police...

Several people have been seriously hurt after a work van went over a guardrail Friday morning on Interstate 93 in Randolph, according to Massachusetts State Police. State Troopers responded to the wreck on I-93 North near the Route 24 junction just before 6 a.m. Friday. Troopers gave medical help to passengers of the 2019 Dodge van, alongside Randolph Fire and…

Police say a situation involving a man who barricaded themselves inside a rental storage facility in Quincy, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning has been resolved peacefully. SWAT and crisis negotiation teams and the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section were all at the scene for hours working with the barricaded subject on Washington Street. The man was wanted on larceny…

A body was pulled from the water at a Boston beach on Wednesday, officials said, and a second person was found unresponsive at the beach later in the day. The condition of the second person wasn’t immediately, and it wasn’t clear if the two incidents were related.

Following a large-scale water search Sunday off the coast of Hull, Massachusetts, authorities have found a truck that was seen driving into the ocean off Pemberton Point, and the driver is dead, police said.

A 52-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man from Connecticut were killed when their vehicle hit another on a highway in Worcester and rolled over, police say.

Two people died when their pickup truck rolled over in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Saturday morning, police said. The truck’s occupants, a man and woman from New Britain, Connecticut, were found by troopers at the scene with serious injuries, and paramedics who arrived declared them dead, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The victims who…

A motorcycle crashed while racing a car Friday night in Malden, Massachusetts, killing the vehicle’s driver, police said. The motorcycle hit a guardrail on the Fellsway at Charles Street about 8:38 p.m., according to the Massachusetts State Police. The driver, Kyle Roust, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The 21-year-old from Tewksbury was later pronounced dead, police...

A photo exclusively obtained by the NBC10 Investigators shows the hand blisters suffered by one trainee after he and other Massachusetts State Police recruits performed “bear crawls” on hot pavement at the Academy in New Braintree. The “unauthorized exercises” resulted in at least 20 trainees being treated by medical staff and led to a shakeup at the Academy in New…

Four troopers have been reassigned and an internal investigation is underway into a serious incident at the Massachusetts State Police Academy, an agency spokesperson said Wednesday. According to a statement from Massachusetts State Police, they are looking into reports that several trainees were ordered to perform bear crawls, an exercise that was not authorized as a part of the training…

Frankie was the first treated under Nero’s Law, which allows police dogs and other working animals to be treated or transported by emergency medical personnel provided there is not a human in need they must attend to.

A wanted man who barricaded himself inside a home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on Tuesday shot and killed a police K-9 before apparently fatally shooting himself, according to Massachusetts State Police.

A Massachusetts State Police K-9 killed in the line of duty Tuesday was, along with his handler, a decorated veteran of the force, part of a team recognized for their bravery multiple times. K-9 Frankie was shot and killed by a wanted man during a police standoff in Fitchburg, according to police. His handler, Sgt. David Stucenski, was unhurt. Frankie…