DA identifies woman, man dead after ‘ambush’ murder-suicide in Brockton
WELL, ANTOINETTE BROCKTON POLICE SO FAR HAVE NOT GIVEN AN UPDATE ON THOSE TWO SHOOTING VICTIMS, BUT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IS HERE ON SCENE. YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THEIR VANS RIGHT HERE IN THE FOREGROUND IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES AGO. WE DID SEE THEM TAKE OUT A BODY BAG FROM THIS HOME. NOW, BROCKTON POLICE WERE CALLED HERE TO ASH STREET AROUND 1230 THIS MORNING FOR REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED. THIS HOME IS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FOREST AVE AND IT’S NOT TOO FAR FROM THE BROCKTON FAIRGROUNDS IN. INVESTIGATORS PUT CRIME SCENE TAPE UP AROUND THAT HOME AND PHOTOS FROM OUR MEDIA PARTNERS AT THE ENTERPRISE SHOW AT LEAST ONE PERSON BEING LOADED INTO AN AMBULANCE. NOW THE INVESTIGATION COMES JUST TWO DAYS AFTER 27 YEAR OLD CEDRIC ABREU WAS SHOT AND KILLED HERE IN BROCKTON ON EASTER MORNING. BROCKTON POLICE SAY THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE IS LEADING THIS INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MORNING’S DOUBLE SHOOTING. WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE DA’S OFFICE AS SOON AS WE GET ANY KIND OF UPDATE, WE’LL BRING YOU THAT INFORMATI
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Woman, man dead after overnight double shooting in Brockton, Massachusetts, DA says
A woman and a man are dead Tuesday after an overnight domestic murder-suicide in Brockton, Massachusetts, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said.Police first responded to a home at 524 Ash St. at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, which is not far from the Brockton Fairgrounds.District Attorney Tim Cruz said the woman, 56-year-old Sheron Towers, was found with a gunshot wound in the home’s driveway. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where she later died, Cruz said. A man, identified as Carlos Brown, 61, was found dead inside the home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Cruz said. Cruz said it appeared Towers was “ambushed” in the driveway when she returned from a vacation to Jamaica. No information was immediately released about the nature of the victims’ relationship. The incident remains under investigation. The shooting scene is about 2 miles away from where a 27-year-old man was shot and killed on Easter morning.
A woman and a man are dead Tuesday after an overnight domestic murder-suicide in Brockton, Massachusetts, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said.
Police first responded to a home at 524 Ash St. at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, which is not far from the Brockton Fairgrounds.
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District Attorney Tim Cruz said the woman, 56-year-old Sheron Towers, was found with a gunshot wound in the home’s driveway. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where she later died, Cruz said.
A man, identified as Carlos Brown, 61, was found dead inside the home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Cruz said.
Cruz said it appeared Towers was “ambushed” in the driveway when she returned from a vacation to Jamaica.
No information was immediately released about the nature of the victims’ relationship.
The incident remains under investigation.
The shooting scene is about 2 miles away from where a 27-year-old man was shot and killed on Easter morning.