Forced to shoot the Weymouth Police department defending that officers decision to open fire. Hello everybody im kerry kavanaugh. And im chris flanagan. Tonight the woman they shot is in the hospital and under arrest. Fox 25s Christine Mccarthy live in weymouth where the shooting happened this morning. Christine, police say when think arrived at home this woman was hysterical . Reporter yeah, thats according to police who say they got a frantic call from the mother of this woman saying that her daughter was trying to kill herself with a i was sitting in my house i hear a gun shot. I said to my daughter that was a gunshot. Reporter neighbors startled late sunday morning to hear a single gunshot ring out. I saw her laying on the ground with her shirt like ripped open there was like blood all right here. Reporter the woman lay shot in her stomach outside her king Ave Apartment in weymouth a knife on the ground. There was a Police Officer that was kind of shaken up and then another the off
The woman lay shot in her stomach. A knife on the ground. There was a Police Officer they were kind of shaken up and then another Police Officer behind her. Reporter Weymouth Police said in a statement the officers responded to a call from the 46yearold womans frantic mother saying her daughter was trying to kill herself with a knife. The mother came out and said she just was trying to kill herself. Reporter police say they found the woman hysterical at her front door holding large knife which they say she refused to drop, ignoring commands even following an officer with the weapon before the officer fired. They took the cops that shot her away too. Reporter the woman is expected to survive. She was rushed to South Shore Hospital for surgery and there shes under arrest on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. I just would never think that Something Like this would happen. She seemed like a very sweet lady. Some neighbors who have known her for decades say she suffer from mental
That he was student at a local elementary school. They are calling this a tragic accident. Crime tape separated a street after a woman was shot in weymouth. She was shot and under arrest. The officer says he was forced to shoot. Reporter right, julie, and police say this woman was hysterical and suicidal when they showed up. She refused to drop it and that is when the officer was forced to shoot her. We understand this womans mother called 911 saying they were threatening to kill herself and it all happened at a apartment complex early sunday morning. Police tell us the woman in question is 46 years old. They say she refused to listen when an officer first ordered to drop the knife and he was forced to shoot her when she came at him with it. I was sitting in my house. I heard a gunshot. Said that was a gunshot. I saw her laying on the ground with her shirt ripped open and there was blood all right here. Reporter the woman is expected to survive. She had surgery at South Shore Hospital
For allegedly sexual assaulting six elderly women with alzheimers. Vanessa fox 25 has been looking in to the case for months. Jacqui heinrich with the story youll see only on fox 25. The reporter mark and vanessa, we have been working on this case for months, after we received a tip, and tonight, we can tell you, 57yearold Robert Mcneal of pembroke is facing several charges, multiple counts, of indecent assault and battery on a disabled person. According to the occurred over the last two years. According to court documents, that fox 25 investigates obtained, mcneal was working for care well adult Day Wellness Center, when the alleged incidents occurred. The state police began their investigation back in july, and the crimes allegedly date back to 2014, involving patients ranging in age from their 60s to their 80s. Court documents revealed mcneal is a veteran, and worked for care well transporting elderly and disabled patients to and from hes now facing charges out of hingham and Plymou
Murky water to break but not too long from now. Shiri it is saras birthday. Everybody wish her a happy birthday. Sick and tired of these drizzly, foggy mornings. One of the foggiest you have seen but steady rain is restricted to the cape and islands this morning widespread upper 50s in woes right now, but fog is our big issue and we are seeing dense fog in provincetown but visibility under two miles in chatham. Three miles infork almouth. Six mile in plymouth and lower than that in taunton. Big issues in boston. Quartermile visibility mean dense fog there. Seacoast as well. North shore looking pretty thick. And onemile visibility in my big concern it will get worse before it gets better. Before 10 a. M. But the worst before 8 00. 8 a. M. We inch closer to 70 degrees. By 10 a. M. Lower 70s. 78 at noon. Here we come 80s in metro west and here we come breaks of sunshine this afternoon. I will walk you through hour by hour with futurecast. Julie grauert is back with live drive time traffic