Weymouth

Witnesses who were here last night telling our crews that a massive fight broke out, prompting a stampede of people running away in fear.

Two people were charged after an incident at a carnival held at Weymouth High School that prompted the event to be canceled, officials said. Witnesses who were at the event last night said that a massive fight broke out, prompting a stampede of people running away in fear. Weymouth police said of the two people being charged that one, a…

A truck rolled over and spilled gravel onto the highway in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the Department of Transportation said Thursday. The crash occurred at about 10 a.m. on Route 3 north and shut down the right lane, officials said. Drivers should expect delays. It wasn’t immediately known if anyone was injured or what caused the crash. This story will be updated…

A second person arrested in connection to the death of a Weymouth, Massachusetts, woman is expected to go before a judge Friday. Neither defendant is charged with murder, but they’re both charged with financial crimes in connection to that woman’s death. In fact, during the arraignment Thursday of one of those two defendants — 45-year-old John Harper — prosecutors did…

A former police officer in Weymouth, Massachusetts, is facing federal charges after a man was beaten while in custody two years ago. Justin Chappell resigned from the Weymouth Police Department after being notified he was facing termination for the incident, which occurred on July 2, 2022. Chief Richard Fuller said Chappell had been found to have used excessive force. The…

Two people have been arrested as police investigate the death of a Weymouth, Massachusetts, woman whose body was found after she was reported missing, authorities said Thursday. A woman who’d been living with Christine Ruth Mello, 56, was arrested, along the roommate’s associate, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office. Investigators with state and local police found that Kelly...

A woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, that was previously reported missing was found dead in her home, and now police are trying to figure out what led to her death. Christine Ruth Mello, 56, had been reported missing before her body was found Monday in her home on Lake Street, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. While details about…

It was a very emotional time for everyone but with this guilty verdict, the family can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Michael Chesna’s family finally getting closure after a jury found Emmanuel Lopes guilty of the Weymouth police sergeant’s murder, along with 77-year-old Vera Adams. Both were shot and killed in July of 2018. “He died doing what...

A Massachusetts jury has found Emanuel Lopes guilty of all charges, including murder, in the killings of a Weymouth police sergeant and a bystander in 2018. It was Lopes’ second trial, after a hung jury in a trial last year resulted in a mistrial. Some people in Norfolk Superior Court cheered after the first guilty verdict was read. The jury…

A Massachusetts jury is on its fourth day of deliberations in the retrial of Emanuel Lopes, the man charged with murder in the killings of a police sergeant and a bystander in 2018. So far, the second Norfolk Superior Court jury considering the charges over the death of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams has been hung, just…

A Massachusetts jury is deliberating the case in the retrial of Emanuel Lopes, the man accused of killing a police sergeant and a bystander in Weymouth in 2018. A judge declared a mistrial in the case against Emanuel Lopes after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision last summer after three weeks of testimony and days of deliberation….

The case of a man accused of killing a police officer and a 77-year-old bystander in Weymouth, Massachusetts, back in 2018 returns to the courtroom. After a previous mistrial, the new trial of Emmanuel Lopes is set to begin Wednesday. The mistrial happened less than a year ago. Now both Lopes and prosecutors are returning to make their cases again….

Jury selection began Monday in the retrial of a man accused of killing a police sergeant and a bystander in Weymouth, Massachusetts, back in 2018. In July, a judge declared a mistrial in the case against Emmanuel Lopes after a jury was unable to reach a unaninimous decision after three weeks of testimony and days of deliberation. Lopes is facing…

A man was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Route 3 south in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on Friday morning. State police said they responded to the scene of the crash near Exit 38B shortly after 5 a.m. They said the three vehicles involved were a Mazda CX5 SUV, a Smart Fortwo car and a Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV. The driver of the…

A man indicted for murdering a Weymouth, Massachusetts, high school senior last year has been arrested in Puerto Rico and extradited to the Bay State. Keniel Diaz-Romero, formerly of Quincy, is facing a murder charge in the February 2022 shooting death of Weymouth High School student Nathan Paul. The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Sunday that Mass. State Police…

Keniel Diaz-Romero, formerly of Quincy, was taken into custody in Puerto Rico and brought back to Massachusetts, where he’ll be arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge for allegedly shooting Nathan Paul in Quincy on Feb. 15, 2022.

A middle school gymnasium in Weymouth, Massachusetts, has been renamed for Police Sgt. Michael Chesna, around five years after he was killed in the line of duty. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Maria Weston Chapman Middle School gymnasium on Commercial Street at 4 p.m. Monday and included Superintendent Robert Wargo, Chief of Police Richard Fuller, members of the…

A ceremony was held at the Maria Weston Chapman Middle School gymnasium at 4 p.m. Monday and included Superintendent Robert Wargo, Chief of Police Richard Fuller, members of Michael Chesna’s family and the community.