Santos Laboy, 45, from Somerville, MA shot dead by Massachusetts State Trooper. Had history of confrontations with police.
[From article]
A knife-wielding Somerville man — who once threatened police with a samurai sword in what was believed to be an attempted suicide by cop — was shot dead by a state trooper yesterday after a brief foot chase down Storrow Drive, authorities said, leaving witnesses of the dramatic showdown badly shaken.
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“A cop wearing a green vest was walking backward on the Esplanade to the Silber Way holding his pistol,” Zhou said. “He was yelling at someone to drop their weapon. And then we saw him fire.”
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“It appears he brandished a knife from his person, waving it about. He went out onto Storrow Drive at one point, back onto the other side of the Esplanade again and at one point ran up onto the Silber Way Footbridge,” Alben said. “At that time a state trooper, who was walking up the bridge ... encountered him midway across the bridge.”
Records show Laboy was arrested in 2009 after swinging a samurai sword in Mission Hill, “threatening to cut off the head of the first cop he saw” and running the weapon through the windshield of a police cruiser and several nearby vehicles.
“He was yelling at us to ‘shoot’ him, ‘shoot’ him,” Boston police officer Rodney Best told the Herald after that arrest. “He was trying to bait us into suicide by cop. We weren’t biting.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/06/trooper_kills_man_near_bu
Trooper kills man near BU
Police say suspect refused to drop knife
Saturday, June 20, 2015
By: Lindsay Kalter, Owen Boss
Boston Herald
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“A cop wearing a green vest was walking backward on the Esplanade to the Silber Way holding his pistol,” Zhou said. “He was yelling at someone to drop their weapon. And then we saw him fire.”
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“It appears he brandished a knife from his person, waving it about. He went out onto Storrow Drive at one point, back onto the other side of the Esplanade again and at one point ran up onto the Silber Way Footbridge,” Alben said. “At that time a state trooper, who was walking up the bridge ... encountered him midway across the bridge.”
Records show Laboy was arrested in 2009 after swinging a samurai sword in Mission Hill, “threatening to cut off the head of the first cop he saw” and running the weapon through the windshield of a police cruiser and several nearby vehicles.
“He was yelling at us to ‘shoot’ him, ‘shoot’ him,” Boston police officer Rodney Best told the Herald after that arrest. “He was trying to bait us into suicide by cop. We weren’t biting.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/06/trooper_kills_man_near_bu
Trooper kills man near BU
Police say suspect refused to drop knife
Saturday, June 20, 2015
By: Lindsay Kalter, Owen Boss
Boston Herald
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