Police have detailed a traumatic timeline of events after a chainsaw-wielding man unleashed a terrifying rampage that looked nothing more than a horror movie in eastern Massachusetts late last night. Sunday.
It started when the 35-year-old suspect was said to have tried to make his way through a local police station – and ended with a SWAT team forcing him to leave the house after he barricaded himself with his two children. your little ones and hang them out the window. police said.
Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley confirmed Monday that the suspect, identified as Brien Buckley, has been arrested after a lengthy confrontation and has been charged with multiple counts, including assault. with a Dangerous Weapon (with Wit: Chainsaw), Damage to Property (three counts), Danger to a child (three counts), Resistance to arrest, Dangerous driving, Unlicensed motor vehicle driving, Disorderly conduct, Disruption of order, and Destruction of trees.
Cohasset Police Department
Sheriff Quigley said that the events began around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, when Buckley is said to have driven across the police station lawn, hit a tree, and then got out of the pickup truck. own and enter the lobby of the building while “passing the station”. – Electric chain saw.
Cohasset police officers received a “crazy call” from a civilian desk worker informing them of what was happening.
Based on Boston25, Quigley said Buckley called the department “earlier in the day and asked if officers could help look after his children. When they refused, he returned a few hours later with a chainsaw.”
Cohasset Police Department
Quigley then allegedly “started breaking down the station’s lobby with a saw and was chopping off the security door, trying to get into a restricted area where the valet was,” Quigley said. After damaging security doors and mail packages, he fled the police station in the van he arrived in, being followed by officers to his home on Cushing Road.
Buckley, who discovered the officers from his home after additional units were deployed, reportedly “started screaming” from inside the house and “hanged his two young children in front of a second-story window.”
He refused to leave the house, and after “de-escalation efforts failed”, a SWAT team and hostage negotiators from the Urban Law Enforcement Council were called to the scene.
Cohasset Police Department
Hours passed and the suspect “became more erratic”. With “an increasingly obvious and present danger to children”, SWAT supervisors asked permission from Cohasset commanding officer to enter the home, police said.
Buckley was taken into custody after resisting arrest, with officers eventually using the Taser to subdue him.
The children were quickly picked up by officers and taken out of the house. The baby girl and boy – both less than five years old – were found together and unharmed, reunited with their mother and grandfather after their ordeal.
Buckley was taken to an area hospital under police supervision, then to Cohasset police headquarters to make a reservation. He is being held without bail.
