Michael Chesna

This is a very emotional time for everyone but with this guilty verdict, the family can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

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A middle school gymnasium in Weymouth, Massachusetts, has been renamed for Police Sgt. Michael Chesna, around five years after he was killed in the line of duty. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Maria Weston Chapman Middle School gymnasium on Commercial Street at 4 p.m. Monday and included Superintendent Robert Wargo, Chief of Police Richard Fuller, members of the…

A ceremony was held at the Maria Weston Chapman Middle School gymnasium at 4 p.m. Monday and included Superintendent Robert Wargo, Chief of Police Richard Fuller, members of Michael Chesna’s family and the community.

A new trial date has been set for the man accused of killing a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, after a mistrial was declared in the case earlier this month. Emmanuel Lopes, accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams in 2018, went on trial in Norfolk Superior Court earlier this summer….

After days of deliberations the judge overseeing the trial of Emanuel Lopes in the 2018 killings of a police officer and elderly woman in Weymouth declared a mistrial.

A mistrial was declared Monday in the murder case of the 2018 killings of a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Deliberations in the murder trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams, had stretched over several weeks in Norfolk Superior Court. The jury, from Worcester County,…

More than a week after deliberations began in the murder trial of Emanuel Lopes, jurors have still not reached a verdict.

The jury considering murder charges in the 2018 killings of a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, didn’t deliberate on Friday, more than a week after closing arguments were made, because of strife amid the jury, a court official said. Deliberations in the murder trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael…

The jury deliberating the charges against a man accused of killing a police officer and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, five years ago had to restart its work on Wednesday after an alternate was brought in. It’s been a week since closing arguments wrapped in the murder trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused in the 2018 killings of…

Jurors are deliberating the case against Emanuel Lopes, who is accused of the murders of Weymouth Police Officer Michael Chesna and resident Vera Adams.

The trial has been ongoing at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, although the jury was selected from a pool of residents from Worcester County.

A man charged in a double shooting five years ago on the South Shore is still waiting to hear his verdict from a jury, as deliberations wrapped up Friday without a decision. Jurors spent Friday deliberating the charges in the trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused in the 2018 murders of a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman…

Emanuel Lopes is accused of murdering Weymouth police officer Michael Chesna and resident Vera Adams

Jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the trial for Emanuel Lopes, who is charged in the 2018 murders of a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman in the South Shore community of Weymouth.

Lopes is accused of attacking 42-year-old Chesna with a rock while being arrested for driving erratically and vandalizing a home. Prosecutors said that during a struggle with the police sergeant, Lopes took Chesna’s gun and shot him eight times in the chest and head. Lopes is then accused of shooting Adams, who was nearby in her home’s sunroom.

Jurors spent Thursday deliberating the charges in the trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused in the 2018 murders of a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman in the South Shore community of Weymouth. Closing arguments wrapped up on Wednesday, leaving the jury to decide the fate of 25-year-old Lopes. Lopes was just 20 in 2018, when he was…

Closing arguments concluded Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman in 2018. Emanuel Lopes, 25, is accused of murdering Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams in July 2018, killings that shocked the South Shore community. Chesna left behind a wife and two young children. The jury began...

A man charged with the murders of a police officer and an innocent woman appeared in court Thursday.

Jury selection lasted more than a week, but finally the trial for Emanuel Lopes is set to begin with opening statements Thursday morning.

The trial of a man accused of killing a Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman in 2018 has begun, with prosecutors and the defense team making impassioned opening statements to the jury Thursday morning. Emanuel Lopes is accused of murdering Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams in July 2018, killings that shocked the South Shore community….