Marshfield woman charged with husbandâs murder
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated January 28, 2021, 10:56 p.m.
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the murder of her husband late Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Christine Ricci, 46, allegedly fatally stabbed her 51-year-old husband, Michael, at a home at 679 Moraine St. , Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz and Marshfield Police Chief Phil Tavares said in a joint statement late Thursday night.
Marshfield police received a 911 call just after 4:45 p.m. reporting a medical emergency at that address and arrived along with emergency medical personnel to find Michael Ricci suffering from stab wounds, according to the statement. He was taken to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, where he was pronounced dead.
MARSHFIELD In a new video released by the Massachusetts Chief of Police Association, Marshfield Police Chief Phil Tavares tells the story of his fathers death, the police brutality that led to it and how he went from being anti-police to the head of a department.
The video, posted to the Massachusetts Police Chiefs and Marshfield Police Department’s social media channels Tuesday, Tavares tells the story of an event from his early life that spurred his career in law enforcement: a brutal, 1987 assault on his father by police officers that ultimately killed him.
After Phil Tavares Sr. failed to leave the home of his second wife, who had a restraining order against him, police responding to the scene placed him under arrest before beating and kicking him, pulling his hair and slamming his head on a heater. Tavares Jr. bailed his father out of jail the next morning and took him straight to the hospital.