First responders gathered in two communities on Saturday — one to mourn a Worcester Police officer who died while trying to save a boy who drowned, the other to celebrate the homecoming of a Braintree officer who was released from the hospital a day after he was shot multiple times.
Police, firefighters and Emergency Medical Service personnel lined the overpasses along Route 3, the lights of their vehicles flashing, to welcome home Officer Matthew Donoghue, who was released from Boston Medical Center, accompanied by his wife, Catie.
Donoghue, 34, an Army National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan, did not speak to the media. But Braintree Police Chief Mark Dubois said he is expected to make a full recovery, as is Officer William Cushing.
Both officers were shot on Friday while responding to a domestic 911 call at an apartment complex near where a suspect, 34-year-old Andrew Homen of Brockton, was killed after he “ambushed” them in the woods, authorities said.
A police dog named Kitt, a 12-year-veteran of the force who went into the woods first, was killed.
“We’re very thankful for the outpouring of support within the community of Braintree, the incredible service the hospital has provided … and the outpouring of support beyond the community of Braintree,” Dubois said, not only for the human officers, but for Kitt as well.
A service will be held for the dog after Cushing, who was his handler, is released from the hospital and makes a full recovery, the chief said.
Dubois also sent his condolences to the Worcester Police Department, which lost Officer Enmanuel “Manny” Familia, a five-year veteran of the department and husband and father of two, on Friday, when he tried to save a 14-year-old boy at Green Hill Pond, but both the boy and the officer drowned. The boy’s name has not yet been released.
First responders who work in Worcester and surrounding communities lined the streets on Saturday morning as Familia’s body was transported from UMass Memorial Medical Center to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Westfield.
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