Police on I-190 in Worcester on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.
An armed man believed to have fatally shot someone else in Worcester, Massachusetts, Wednesday tried to carjack vehicles on a highway and then killed himself as police tried to stop him, authorities said.
Neither the suspected shooter or the person he's believed to have killed on Heroult Street Wednesday afternoon have been identified. Worcester police said they were continuing to investigate what happened Wednesday night.
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The incident stopped traffic on Interstate 190 for hours Wednesday afternoon.
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The first shooting was reported about 2:20 p.m. on Heroult Road, where person who'd been shot was found seriously wounded, police said. He was pronounced dead after being rushed to a hospital.
Soon afterward, a Massachusetts State Trooper saw a man acting suspiciously, according to Worcester police, and approached him, at which point the man fired once at the officer, then fled when the trooper told him to drop his weapon.
Police were then called about 3:24 p.m. to I-190 north near Heroult Road, where they were told a man was pointing a gun at drivers and stopping traffic. State and local officers arrived and chased after the man on the highway, police said, and he tried to carjack some drivers.
At that point, a Worcester officer and a state trooper opened fire, and the man they were chasing fatally shot himself, police said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. It wasn't immediately clear if he'd been wounded by the officers who opened fire.
Police said there was not believed to be any danger to the public, and that the highway gunman is believed to have been the shooter in the Heroult Road incident.
Anyone with information about what happened or video of it was asked to call Worcester police at 508-799-8651.
NBC10 Boston has reached out to state police for more information.
I-190 was closed in Worcester for hours on Wednesday. A large number of police officers were at the scene, walking together on the highway.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said about 4 p.m. that the highway was closed at Exit 2. They said it had reopened just after 7:30 p.m.
