Flags should fly at half-staff throughout Massachusetts until Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker ordered in honor of the United States Capitol Police Officer, a native of the Commonwealth, who was killed Friday. Many buildings, including Boston's City Hall, had already lowered the flags after the deadly incident on Friday. Sign up for our Newsletters Officer William "Billy" Evans was a native of Berkshire County. He died in an attack perpetrated by a.
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Tributes are flooding in for William Billy Evans, the 18-year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police who was killed in Friday s attack at a Capitol checkpoint. Evans is being mourned by lawmakers as a hero and remembered by friends as a caring father, dedicated officer and good-natured jokester.
The country is reeling from the attack, which took place at the north barricade of the Capitol building just after 1 p.m. A suspect rammed his car into Evans and another officer and crashed into a barrier, then got out and started running toward them while wielding a knife, police said.
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