*** WATCH *** MURDER/SUICIDE INVESTIGATION – 11-YEAR-OLD CALLED POLICE SAYING FATHER ASSAULTED MOTHER WITH KNIFE… FATHER THEN BARRICADED HIMSELF… [LATEST DETAILS]
UPDATE – DA identifies deceased – 9/2/22 @ 8:20PM:
Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe announced today that at
approximately 2:48 a.m. this morning Barnstable Police were alerted by a 911 call to respond to 66 Murrays Way in Hyannis. Upon arrival they found two individuals deceased. Preliminary investigation would suggest that it is a murder/suicide. The deceased have been identified as Aline De Lima Ferreira De Castro (DOB: 7/21/84) and Luiz Castro, Jr. (DOB: 5/26/78) of Hyannis. The evidence suggests that Luis Castro Jr. killed his wife Aline with a knife and then hung himself. An adult relative of Aline has been notified. The children of the deceased husband and wife, ages 7 and 11, who were present in the home, are now in the care of the Department of Children and Families.
The matter remains under investigation by the Barnstable Police and State Police detectives assigned to the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office.
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UPDATE – BPD Press Release – 9/2/22 @ 8:20AM:
At approximately 2:48 a.m. on Friday 9/2/22 the Barnstable Police Department responded to a residence on Murray Way in Hyannis after receiving a call reporting an assault inside the home.
Upon investigation, it was determined that a homicide and suicide had occurred at the home, and the Massachusetts State Police Detectives Unit was called to the scene.
Please note that this crime was isolated to the residence on Murray Way, and there is no danger to the public while the investigation continues.
At this time, all press inquiries should be made to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office.
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INITIAL HN REPORT:
HYANNIS – [DEVELOPING] According to sources, at around 2:48 a.m. this morning, at 66 Murray Way, an 11-year-old called police stating his father assaulted his mother with a knife. The father then went into a bathroom, according to the young caller.
As officers arrived on scene, the father with a knife was apparently barricaded in a room upstairs. It was an extremely volatile situation, and the first priority was for officers to make sure everyone (including what appeared to be two young boys) were safely outside of the house (they were). In an effort to possibly save lives, Barnstable Police patrol officers teamed up and made entry, guns drawn. After several harrowing minutes, two officers came rushing out requesting rescue to the scene.
At one point, Hyannis FD EMTs brought a stretcher up to the doorway… but a short while later they put the empty stretcher back inside the ambulance and cleared the scene.
The crime scene was taped off. Detectives called in. A mobile command center set up nearby… [DEVELOPING]
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