Crime
A Mansfield man was discovered lifeless in a house with gunshot wounds in his physique. A suspect from Manchester-by-the-Sea is going through expenses associated to his demise, however not homicide.
A 23-year-old Mansfield man was shot and killed at a Mansfield residence Saturday morning, in line with the Bristol County District Lawyer’s workplace.
Police detained a 22-year-old suspect after the capturing and charged him with unlawful firearm crimes, however not with homicide, the DA’s workplace stated in a information launch Sunday. It’s unclear whether or not the suspect will face additional expenses.
Police responded to a house at 42 West Church St. in Mansfield at 11:11 a.m. Saturday for a report of a capturing, the discharge stated. There, they discovered Samuel Waters lifeless with gunshot wounds in his physique.
On Sunday, police charged Manchester-by-the-Sea resident William O’Brien with carrying an unlawful firearm and carrying a loaded unlawful firearm in reference to Waters’s demise, the discharge stated. He’s set to be arraigned on these expenses Monday morning in Attleboro District Court docket.
Police decided that Waters’s demise was a murder, the discharge stated, however O’Brien will not be presently going through murder expenses.
Mansfield and State Police are nonetheless investigating the capturing, the DA’s workplace stated. They don’t imagine there’s presently any hazard to the general public and aren’t releasing any extra info presently.
That is the primary murder in Mansfield in over a decade, the Attleboro Solar-Chronicle reported. The city’s final deadly capturing was in 2011 when a 20-year-old Attleboro man shot and killed a 22-year-old Brockton man at an house complicated.
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Originally posted 2023-05-21 22:34:09.