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By Lucas Phillips, John Hilliard and Jeremy C. Fox GLOBE CORRESPONDENT JULY 15, 2018
WEYMOUTH — A Weymouth police officer and a local woman were shot and killed Sunday morning allegedly by a suspect who used the officer’s stolen service weapon, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s office.

Officer Michael Chesna, 42, died in the line of duty, and a local woman was shot and killed in her home by Emanuel Lopes, 20, according to the district attorney.

Lopes is expected to be arraigned Monday on two counts of homicide, Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor said during a press conference at Weymouth Police Headquarters on Sunday afternoon.



At about 7:32 a.m., Weymouth police were responding to a report of an erratic driver in the area of South Shore Hospital, Connor said.

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There was a single car accident in the area, and the driver fled the scene on foot. Weymouth police, including Chesna, began a search for the driver.

Officer Michael Chesna.
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Officer Michael Chesna.
Chesna found the suspect, later identified as Lopes, vandalizing a home on Burton Terrace.

Chesna “exited his vehicle, he drew his firearm and commanded this man to stop,” Connor said.

Lopes is believed to have attacked Chesna with a large stone and struck him in the head. Chesna fell to the ground.

“Lopes them retrieved Officer Chesna’s firearm [and] discharged it several times in his head and chest,” Connor said.

Additional officers responded to the scene and returned fire, and officials believe Lopes was struck one in a leg below the knee, Connor said.

At that point, a foot chase began in the area of Burton Terrace during which Lopes “maintained control” of Chesna’s weapon, Connor said.

“During the foot chase through the yards of Burton Terrace, it is believed Mr. Lopes discharged Officer Chesna’s firearm an additional three times, striking a local resident in her home” and killed her, Connor said.

Investigators have not released her name. Connor said officials would not answer questions during the press conference.

Lopes was later apprehended and taken to South Shore Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Bullet holes could be seen in the sliding glass door of a nearby home.
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Bullet holes could be seen in the sliding glass door of a nearby home.
The shooting rocked a residential neighborhood on what was a quiet Sunday morning.

April Visco, 43, said she heard a rapid succession of 10 to 20 shots around 7:30 a.m., and ran outside her house to see what happened.

She heard someone yell three times, “‘Get on the ground,’” she said.

She said several marked and unmarked police cruisers appeared on the scene within moments, and saw a man in his 30s being placed into a police cruiser about 20 minutes later.

A Torrey Street resident, Tobias Macey, said he “heard multiple shots” and a lot of yelling Sunday morning.

Throughout the morning, police — including uniformed Weymouth and Braintree officers, State Police troopers, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office, and other agencies — cordoned off large stretch of Torrey Street from Park Avenue down several houses past the intersection with Burton Terrace.

Further up Burton Terrace, officers could be seen working outside one of the homes.

A white BMW sedan was taken from the scene on a flatbed truck and brought to South Shore Hospital, where it sat at the intersection of Main and Columbian streets.

Around noontime, Columbian Street was cordoned off by yellow police tape, and State Police and a Quincy police cruiser blocked access to the street, which leads to the hospital’s emergency department.

A somber procession of Vehicles from area police departments and from the office of the state medical examiner left South Shore Hospital shortly after 1:30 p.m. and drove north on Main Street toward Route 3.

Officers from multiple departments lined the street and saluted as Chesna’s body passed.

Visco, the neighbor, described the area as a “nice community,” but lamented how violence could strike so close to her home.

“Everyone says ‘it doesn’t happen in my neighborhood,’” she said. “It does happen everywhere.”

After police arrived, she said she saw several officers crying and hugging one another.

This story is developing and will be updated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. Lucas Phillips can be reached at [email protected] Hilliard can be reached at [email protected] C. Fox can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @jeremycfox.
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[stratguy]

So sad. RIP officer.

[The Libertine]

Weymouth is a few towns over from where my wife and I reside, and we watched the press conference on-line. So sad.

[Urosfan]

Rip brother

[GradyPhilpott]

Rest in peace.

[cop414]

I was just about to post this Marc, may he Rest In Peace.

[crew]

Senseless and sad.
RIP Officer.