Mentally ill or deliberate killer? Trial starts for man charged with killing Massachusetts officer, bystander
Lopes was fleeing the scene of a minor car crash and Chesna was investigating when their lives intersected, authorities have said.
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Lopes was fleeing the scene of a minor car crash and Chesna was investigating when their lives intersected, authorities have said.
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Emanuel Lopes faces 11 charges in all, including two counts of murder in connection with the killings of Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams.
The prosecutor in the murder trial of a man charged with killing a Massachusetts police officer and an innocent bystander nearly five years ago told jurors in opening statements that the suspect acted with deliberation when he used the officer's own gun to shoot him multiple times
Sgt. Michael Chesna and lifelong Weymouth resident Vera Adams were allegedly killed by Emanuel Lopes in 2018.