No traffic on gladstone street. The reason why is because this remains a crime scene right now. And so the road in front of where all this happened is still sealed off right now. The expwrird officers have been identified this afternoon by the Boston Police commissioner as Richard Cintolo and matt morris, longtime mebz of the Boston Police officer who were rushed to mas General Hospital overnight with multiple gunshots. Er they were in surgery overnight and listed but stable but critical condion figueroa was wearing a bulletproof vest according the Police Commissioner and armed with a tactical rifle inside that gladstone house when Police Arrived on the scene. He was eventually shot and killed by Police Officers in the gun battle. Investigators have been trying to piece everything together all day long and trying to figure out why and what led to figueroa opening fire on those Police Officers. Boston Police Commissioner other officers who dragged the injured officers to safety, saving
48 degrees. A wider look, we can see cooler temperatures dipping down, especially tonight into tomorrow. Notice these blues headed our way here. Thats that polar jet. All that cooler air sliding into place. We have a frost advisory issued by the National Weather Service Starting at 1 00 a. M. Saturday until 9 00 a. M. Your weekend looks fantastic. Sunshine for today. Temperatures in the mid60s. A couple upper 60s. Tomorrow 60s, delaware averaging out in the 70s. A few extra clouds developing on sunday. And tracking the potential for showers on monday. A really great stretch of weather for the next couple of days. Jessica . Thanks, erika. On the blue route, were starting off around the Germantown Pike on ramp. All traffic moving along pretty smoothly. There are accidents out there, one out inc lower salford, mai street and indian creek road. Another crash over around abington, shady lane and pine road. And a third crash of the morning out in plymouth. Thats on plymouth road and falcon
33yearold kirk figueroa, armed and wearing a bullet proof vest. I cant speak for the past, and we dont know what sparked it. Obviously theres some aliases and other states and a lot of arrests and violence and things like up. Were going to continue to look into the background and get a full understanding of who he is. As weve been reporting, figueroa had no criminal history here in massachusetts, but was impersonating a private investigator. Tonight there will be a vigil in east boston for officers cintolo and morris. We will be here for up and have it on 7. For now in the newsroom, im adm williams, 7news today in new england. Stay with 7news. You can get instant updates or the 7 news phone and tablet app. New at 4 30, a woman who police say encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide. Michelle carters boyfriend he was 18 years old and police are saying she encouraged him with Text Messages. And today her attorney argued up some statements she made to investigators after he died should
He now faces felony charges. Anchor also today, sky 7 hd over the scene of a dangerous drive in hopkinton. A mother and two children taken to the hospital after being hit by a car. They are expected to be okay. Anchor and now the father of one of those children is speaking out with a message for the driver. Kelly ohara live this hopkinton with more on what happened and the message. He wants that driver to slow done and Pay Attention in total two mothers and five one of those mothers pregnant but miraculously everyone is doing okay this afternoon. Im sickened. Im absolutely sickened. Two moms and kids hurt while crossing this busy street monday morning. Sky 7 hd over the scene minutes later, you can see a baby carriage stuck behind one of the cars involved in this crash. The police chief says a driver slammed into a stopped car while the women and their children were walking across the street. Hes hey scrape on his head and scrapes throughout his body. He is very scared. Reporter dad ch
Sheet. 7s steve cooper live in walpole with more on his history and what happened in court. Steve, what do you know . Well, also we should mention that kids here at norfolk aggie high school, especially girls on the Volleyball Team here, are pretty rattled by these chilling charges, and as you mentioned, this suspect here who appeared in court over rentham earlierier today is no stranger to the law. Reporter darin grant, a level 3 sex guilty to several charges after prosecutors say the 41yearold followed a school bus carrying the norfolk aggie high schoolgirls Volleyball Team a match yesterday when he pulled up in his car with his pants down and performed a lewd act on himself. You fear for the kids. You dont want to see anything happen to the kids. Reporter one teen snapped this picture. Walpole police were able to track him down because he was wearing a gps tracking bracelet. I checked with the gps track same route the bus had taken once it left the school that day. Reporter with his