Michael Chesna

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 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….

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,…

The jury deliberating murder charges in the 2018 killings of a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, was sent home Friday without having come to a verdict. Deliberations in the murder trial of Emanuel Lopes, who is accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams, began over a week ago, but the jury…

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.

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…

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...

Emanuel Lopes was 20 years old when he allegedly killed Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams

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….

The trial for a man accused of attacking a Massachusetts police officer and killing him with his own gun and then fatally shooting a bystander in her own home is set to begin Thursday. Emanuel Lopes was indicted on murder charges in September 2018 in the deaths of Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams. Police say Chesna, 42,…