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WORCESTER A 31-year-old armed man shot by Worcester police on April 20 told a police dispatcher that the bomb strapped to him was attached to his heart, and that if his heart were to stop, the bomb would blow up. Phet Gouvonvong Jr. called 911 about 10:30 p.m., and was transferred to an emergency dispatcher in Worcester. A short time later, he asked for police officers to be sent to his location, in the area of 258 Grafton St. Gouvonvong said he did not know where he was, instead telling the dispatcher he was near a church, a basketball court and a Pizza Hut. The dispatcher asked if he was on Grafton Street, and he said that he was. He also said he had an AR rifle. ....
WORCESTER Ann Marie Gonzalez has a lot of unanswered questions about her son’s death and also his life. Less than a year before her 31-year-old son, Phet Gouvonvong Jr. died in a police standoff in Worcester, he’d shown up at her door for the first time in nearly four years. “I don’t know what happened within that 3½- to 4-year gap,” she said in a phone conversation Thursday from her home in Southbridge, recalling how she’d reported him missing years before. “Everybody was looking for him,” she said, but he didn’t call, and he didn’t write. One day, about eight months ago, she said, he just showed up at her door with his sister. ....
WORCESTER The city Friday said it intends to implement a police body camera program by 2022 at the latest, and will start scheduling meetings to get community input shortly. “The city is committed to a body camera program, and will soon be engaging in community conversations on what that would look like,” spokesman Walter Bird wrote in an email to the Telegram & Gazette on Friday. “I’m grateful for the announcement from the city today,” James P. McGovern, the city’s longtime Democratic Congressman, said in a telephone interview, adding that federal COVID-19 relief funds should ease the program’s cost. ....
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