The other suspect involved in Manuel Duarte's death, Marvin Viega, made it to the Massachusetts Most Wanted list before Nashville officers killed him in 2021.
A Brockton man will spend up to five years in prison for his role in a 2020 murder, after his co-defendant was shot and killed by police in Tennessee last year.
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NBC affiliate News4 Nashville reported that the officer involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave. Nashville police didn t initially identify the man who was shot.
Body camera video released by the Metro Nashville Police Department showed the man trying to get into a cruiser despite being warned not to by an officer, then running at the officer with what appear to be knifes in his hands. The officer, who d earlier yelled, Drop the knife, I don t want to shoot you, shot the man running at him three times.
Veiga was indicted in March, along with another man who was later arrested, in the October shooting of Manuel Duarte, 25, in Brockton, prosecutors said. Veiga was added to Massachusetts most wanted list on March 18.
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A man who was fatally shot Saturday by police in Nashville, Tennessee, after charging an officer with two butcher knives was wanted on a murder charge.
Marvin Veiga, 32, was wanted in Massachusetts in connection to the death of Manuel Duarte in the state. A warrant was issued for his arrest on March 6, and he was added to the state s most wanted fugitives list.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified Veiga on Monday.
Officer Christopher Royer was on a routine patrol at night when he checked a car s plates. Seeing that they were registered to a car not fitting the description of the one he was looking at, he decided to pull the car over, Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said, according to the