Monday, December 31, 2012
A look back at the top stories of 2012 on Hamilton-Wenham Patch.
News about a Beverly police officer who was shot by a Hamilton Police sergeant outside the Starbucks in North Beverly was the top story of 2012 on Hamilton-Wenham Patch. The horse jumping accident and death of Myopia Hunt's Master of Foxhounds, Donald V. Little, was also part of coverage that topped local news in 2012. After the coverage of the shooting and Little's death, it was the effects of an earthquake in Maine that also drew a lot of interest. Here are the 10 most read stories on Hamilton-Wenham Patch in 2012. 1. DA: Nagy and Lantych Arranged to Meet at North Beverly Starbucks Before Shooting 2. UPDATE: Sgt. Ken Nagy Found Dead in His Car 3. Shooting Motive, Details Under Investigation After Police Sgt. Suspect Found Dead 4. Nagy …
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy said in his suicide note that he planned to shoot Beverly Police Officer Jason Lantych if he met up with him on the evening of Feb. 24.
Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy outlined his plans to shoot Beverly Police Officer Jason Lantych and then take his own life in a suicide note left at his home less than an hour before the Feb. 24 shooting. That’s according to a summary of the investigation released on Thursday by Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. The report does not say where Nagy went between the shooting – just before 6 p.m. on Feb. 24 – and the time he pulled into the parking lot near the shooting scene at about 10:30 p.m. and killed himself in his sport utility vehicle. The note was discovered in Nagy’s Rowley home at about 6:50 p.m. on the night of the shooting after State Police and Rowley police forced their way into the home. Next to it was $3,900…
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy was laid to rest at St. James in Salem on Friday morning.
Hamilton Police Sgt. Ken Nagy was remembered as a man who created many wonderful memories for many people, during his funeral on Friday. “Those are the very memories that will give you joy and comfort in the future, in time,” said Rev. Louis Bourgeois, the former priest who married Nagy and his wife Katie. “Father B,” as many in Hamilton and Wenham know him, also serves as the chaplain for the Hamilton Police Department. Nagy and Bourgeois met not long after Nagy began with the police department 19 years ago and Bourgeois arrived at St. Paul Catholic Church in Hamilton. Bourgeois extended his condolences to Nagy’s wife Katie, their two sons, Nagy’s brother and sisters and his “dear, dear” friends at the Hamilton Police Department in his …
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Murphy Funeral Home in Salem welcomed visitors and uniformed officers who came to pay their respects to Sgt. Ken Nagy on a snowy Thursday.
Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy will be laid to rest on Friday in a funeral service at St. James in Salem. Nagy shot Beverly Police Officer twice outside the Starbucks in North Beverly last Friday before returning to the scene about five hours later and taking his own life. Lantych is recovering and an investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to the Essex County District Attorney's office. Nagy has been remembered as a "techie" who loved his family - including his wife and two sons - and was a skilled investigator and fair police officer.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The priest who married Hamilton Police Sgt. Ken Nagy and his wife Katie, and who will preside over his funeral on Friday, called Ken Nagy a pleasant, upbeat man who was a good police officer.
The priest who married Sgt. Ken Nagy and his wife Katie at St. Paul’s called Ken Nagy “a good friend and a good policeman.” Rev. Louis D. Bourgeois serves as the Hamilton Police Department’s chaplain and first met Nagy when he arrived at St. Paul Catholic Church in 1993. He became the department’s chaplain six months later. “He was always a gentleman; Every time I would see him he would be pleasant,” Bourgeois said, saying he always saw Nagy smiling and upbeat as he would see him around town – often crossing children in front of one of the schools on Route 1A. “He would always give me a nice wave.” Nagy’s funeral Mass will happen at St. James in Salem because that is where Bourgeois is now, after retiring from St. Paul’s in 2010. Bourgeois…
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Essex County District Attorney said that the complete results of the investigation into Friday's night's shooting of a Beverly police officer by a Hamilton police sergeant will be released when it is complete - including looking into the relationship
The investigation into a shooting of a Beverly police officer by Hamilton police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy outside a Starbucks in North Beverly last Friday will be complete and thorough, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said on Tuesday. Blodgett made the comments to reporters at an unrelated event in Newburyport. “The investigation is very ongoing,” Blodgett said in an interview with WCVB-TV. “It is very much being done professionally.” Investigators are still waiting on the results of ballistics and scientific tests, he said. “We are going to do a thorough, complete professional investigation and make our results know when they are done.” The investigation continues “to ensure that no other criminal activity took place in …
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Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said the three were friends.
Investigators are now probing the connection between Beverly Police Office Jason Lantych, Sgt. Kenneth Nagy and Nagy's wife Katherine. According to an article in the Boston Globe, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told reporters on Tuesday: “They were friends, have known each other for a number of years, and that is something that we are looking at,” Blodgett said. “They had a professional relationship, based upon their working domestic violence cases.” Authorities alledge Hamilton Police Officer Kenneth Nagy shot Beverly Police Officer Jason Lantych in the upper leg and wrist outside Starbucks in North Beverly Friday night, then took his own life a few hours later. Blodgett’s comments, made during a press conference in …
Nagy's funeral will be held Friday in Salem.
The funeral for Hamilton Police Sergeant Kenneth Andrew Nagy, Jr. will be held Friday at St. James Church in Salem, according to Murphy Funeral Home in Salem. According to an obituary submitted by the family on Murphy Funeral Home's Website, Nagy leaves behind "his loving wife, Katherine, and their two wonderful young sons, Gavin William, 7, and Griffin Andrew, 5, to whom he passed on his love of gadgets, technology, and Star Wars." The obituary details Nagy grew up in Center Reach, Long island and was a graduate of Fonda-Fultonville High School. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and his Masters in Criminal Justice from Western New England College. "He was highly intelligent, fiercely loyal…
A wrapup of the coverage of the Feb. 24 shooting by Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy at a Starbucks in North Beverly and his subsequent suicide at the scene five hours later.
Monday, February 27, 2012
The Essex County District Attorney's Office said Monday that the public is not in danger after Friday night's shooting involving a Hamilton police sergeant outside a Starbucks in North Beverly.
No criminal wrongdoing has been found – beyond the initial shooting - and the investigation into a motive is ongoing after Friday night’s shooting outside a Starbucks in North Beverly, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett announced on Monday. In addition, the public is not in danger after the shooting, allegedly by Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy, and his subsequent suicide near the shooting scene five hours later, according to the District Attorney's office. Nagy’s suicide has made any prosecution of Nagy “moot,” said Blodgett’s spokesman Carrie Kimball Monahan. “As previously stated, the meeting between the off-duty officers was planned, the shooting was not random, and there appears to be no ongoing public safety concerns…
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Old Man
5:09 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012
There is no excuse for any of this. Police officers should be held to a higher standard than the general population. In my experience, most police officers display signs of a sociopath/psychopath. Police cause harm to INNOCENT people every day, but when there is an incident between two cops it makes news? We need to do a better job screening those assigned to protect us for signs of instability … more ›