Overview
- A woman drove an SUV into the Sturbridge Plaza Hotel and opened fire in the building, which took place early Thursday, June 18, and prompted an immediate police and emergency-medical response.
- Prosecutors say the suspect was eight months pregnant and in her late 20s and that she appeared to be searching for two people she knew before shooting an unrelated guest and then suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound; she was later pronounced dead at the scene.
- One male victim was taken to Harrington Hospital and then airlifted to UMass Lakeside where he remains in critical condition.
- Sturbridge police, Massachusetts State Police, and the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office are leading the active investigation with State Police crime-scene, crash-reconstruction, firearms identification units, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on site, and officials say there is no ongoing public threat.
- Witnesses described the attack as targeted and chaotic, dispatch audio contained preliminary and sometimes conflicting reports, and investigators say they will reconcile those early field reports with forensic findings while asking the public to avoid speculation.