Lopes was sentenced for killing Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 2018.

Cindy Chesna gave three powerful victim impact statements — her son’s, her daughter and her own — at the sentencing of Emanuel Lopes, who killed her husband, Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna.

Emanuel Lopes was sentenced Wednesday to consecutive life sentences for murdering a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 2018. The 26-year-old will not be eligible to go before a parole board until he’s 60, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone said after delivering the sentence, which she made after considering what she described as “very powerful”…

A ruling from the state’s highest court delayed the sentencing for the man convicted in the murders of a Weymouth police sergeant and an innocent bystander.

It will take a few more months for Emanuel Lopes to be sentenced for murdering a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, six years ago. On Friday, days before he was due to be sentenced for charges of first- and second-degree murder, the judge in the case agreed to move the hearing back. “I understand that this…

It was a very emotional time for everyone but with this guilty verdict, the family can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Michael Chesna’s family finally getting closure after a jury found Emmanuel Lopes guilty of the Weymouth police sergeant’s murder, along with 77-year-old Vera Adams. Both were shot and killed in July of 2018. “He died doing what...

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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Emanuel Lopes was convicted of the murders of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams – a bystander – in 2018.

Some people in the Norfolk Superior Court cheered after the first guilty verdict was read. The jury found Emanuel Lopes guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and of second-degree murder in the killing of Vera Adams.

A jury has found Emanuel Lopes guilty of murder in his retrial over the 2018 killings of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and bystander Vera Adams.