Lopes fled the scene of a car crash in 2018 and Chesna found him throwing rocks at a home. When Chesna confronted him, Lopes threw a large rock at his head, knocking him to the ground.

Chesna responded to the area of Burton Terrace in his police cruiser. The DA’s office said the 42-year-old officer saw the suspect, later identified as Lopes, “actively vandalizing” a home.

DEDHAM – Wednesday's sentencing of Emanuel Lopes after his conviction on murder charges in the deaths of Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and bystander Vera Adams in 2018 came with powerful ...

Weymouth police officer Michael Chesna, 42, was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly before 8 a.m. The unidentified woman was fatally wounded by stray bullets in a nearby home.

Send this article to your social connections. Emanuel Lopes, a Weymouth man who was 20 at the time, allegedly killed Chesna and Adams on the morning of July 15, 2018. Around 7 a.m. that morning ...

Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna, 41, and Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon, 32, will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor from the Irish American Police Officers Association during its ...

Chesna is survived by his wife Cynthia, a son Jack, 4, and daughter Olivia, 9. The family lives in a home in Hanover and they will receive help paying off their house mortgage from the Stephen ...

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Chesna relies on that passion when faced with the challenge of funding a nonprofit organization. "As we've evolved, grant funding from New York state decreased, and need increased," she said.

In the weeks and months following the deaths on July, 15, 2018, residents and businesses held dozens of events large and small to raise money in honor of Chesna and Adams, a 77-year-old widow and ...

Weymouth Officer Michael Chesna and an innocent bystander, 77-year-old Vera Adams, were killed on Sunday. The man charged in their deaths, Emanuel Lopes, 20, will either be arraigned at his ...