SOMERVILLE — Police have made an arrest in connection with a hit-and-run in Massachusetts that killed a beloved school teacher and administrator.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says 55-year-old Edward Clark, of Norwood, struck Allison Donovan and another woman in a crosswalk in Somerville on Feb. 8 and drove from the scene. Donovan died.
A not-guilty plea to a charge of leaving the scene of a deadly crash was entered on Clark’s behalf at his arraignment Friday. He was released without bail.
Donovan, of Somerville, was a teacher and principal in Watertown schools.
The case went unsolved for almost a week until a Tufts University officer spotted a black pickup truck with front end damage like the one caught in surveillance.
Clark said he thought he hit a barrel or traffic cone.
FALL RIVER — Prosecutors say a 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old Massachusetts youth.
The Bristol district attorney says the suspect in the killing of 17-year-old William Wheeler in Fall River late Wednesday was arrested Thursday evening in West Warwick, RI.
The suspect’s name was not made public because he is a juvenile.
Fall River police responded to a 911 call about a stabbing during an altercation at about 11:55 p.m. Wednesday.
First responders found Wheeler lying on the floor of an apartment suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to St. Anne’s Hospital where he was declared dead just before 1 a.m. Thursday.
The stabbing remains under investigation.
BOSTON — A man has been convicted of yelling slurs and attacking a Muslim woman who was on her way to prayer services during Ramadan.
Prosecutors say 36-year-old Sean Devlin was convicted by a judge Thursday of charges including assault and battery and civil rights violations. Sentencing is scheduled for Friday.
Authorities say the North Reading man was on an Orange Line train in Boston in June 2017 when he heard 63-year-old Malika Touirtou speaking Arabic on the phone. Police say Devlin struck the train window near her head, breaking it, claimed the woman had a bomb in her bag, and struck her with an umbrella as she exited. He told her to “go back to your country.”
Touirtou said outside court she’s glad the ordeal is over and “God Bless America.”
WORCESTER — A man who shipped large quantities of methamphetamine through the mail has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Adam Germano pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to distribute and to distributing meth from Las Vegas to Worcester. One shipment intercepted in January 2017 contained more than two kilograms (four pounds) of meth.
The 37-year-old Worcester man was arrested during a March 2017 traffic stop in Concord, New Hampshire, in which police found methamphetamine and a handgun hidden in the engine of the car he was driving.
His attorney successfully argued for 15 years’ imprisonment after the government asked for 17½ years. He was also sentenced Thursday to four years of probation and ordered to forfeit more than $73,000.
From Associated Press