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The 22-year-old Lawrence High School alum was shot and killed in the Pearl Avenue area on Friday evening.

The victim has been identified as Jumil Celladiya, 22, of Lawrence, authorities said.

Warning: NBC10 Boston obtained surveillance video — portions of which are included in the video above — that is disturbing, graphic, and difficult to watch. A 22-year-old woman was shot and killed on New Year’s Eve in Lawrence, Massachusetts, authorities said. The Lawrence Police Department responded to a report of shots fired in the Pearl Avenue area around 5:10 p.m….

Three people were taken to the hospital after a massive fire tore through a home in Lawrence, Massachusetts Thursday night. The fire started at a triple-decker home on Abbott Street around 10:45p.m. The flames were so massive, the fire spread to the second floor of the home next door, fire officials said. People were in both home at the...

The fire started at a triple decker in Lawrence Thursday night.

COVID-19 case numbers are surging across Massachusetts, and the CDC now predicts we could see more than a 55% increase in cases nationally by the end of Christmas week. Handing out free rapid at-home COVID-19 antigen tests is one way Massachusetts is trying to combat the holiday surge. “I understand the whole family wants to stay together on Christmas, but…

Cities across Massachusetts are handing out free at-home testing kits to help curb the spread of COVID-19 this holiday season.

As landscapers transition seemingly overnight from fall leaf cleanup to winter snow removal, their services are definitely in high demand this year. “I’m hoping for snow,” plow truck driver Asmin Fabian said. Plow driver Julian Rios said, “Hopefully we get a storm, hopefully not, but that’s money in our pockets, you know? We plow. We do it, rise and...

Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting Sunday night in Lawrence.

Police arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting Sunday night in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence police were called to Crosby Street around 8 p.m. for gunfire, and officers found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was treated on scene by paramedics and emergency medical technicians before he was taken to Lawrence General Hospital, where he…

A man was shot to death Sunday night on Crosby Street, police said. It is not believed to be random.

A man was shot to death Sunday night in Lawrence, Massachusetts, police said. Lawrence police responded to a report of shots fired on Crosby Street around 8 p.m., and officers found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was treated on scene by paramedics and emergency medical technicians before he was taken to Lawrence General Hospital where…

A man convicted of second-degree murder in a shooting two decades ago is accused of stabbing a man in a road rage incident last week in Boston. A 59-year-old man was stabbed on Nov. 17 at the intersection of Boylston Street and Charlesgate, according to Massachusetts State Police, who responded around 7:30 p.m. that day. Police say the victim was…

While it might feel like the big push is over, in some Massachusetts communities, there is still a lot of work to do when it comes to vaccinating teenagers against COVID-19. One coalition is putting out new data on vaccine inequities in the state in hopes of getting them addressed. In Lawrence, only 66% of young people ages 12 to…

Some cities and towns have lower vaccination rates among young people.

A Lawrence man accused of sexually assaulting a child appeared in court Wednesday.

Gabriel Yepez, 43 of Lawrence, is due to be arraigned in Lowell District Court Wednesday on child rape charges..

Gabriel Yepez, 43, is accused in a series of assaults on a child he knows, police said Tuesday.

Police in Dracut, Massachusetts, have arrested a Lawrence man wanted on child rape charges. Gabriel Yepez, 43, is accused in a series of assaults on a child he knows, police said Tuesday. Yepez was arrested in Lawrence on Tuesday night and charged with three counts of aggravated rape of a child and three counts of rape of a child with…

Police in Dracut, Mass. are in search of a man from Lawrence accused of raping a child.