Crime & Safety
Injured MBTA Officer is Winchester Native
The Boston Globe is reporting that Richard H. Donohue Jr., of Woburn, is in stable condition.
The MBTA Transit Police Officer wounded in a shoot-out with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is a Winchester native, the Boston Globe reported Friday.
According to the Globe, Richard Donohue Jr., 33, of Woburn, is in stable condition at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Richard Davey and Beverly Scott, general manager of the MBTA, spent the morning at the hospital with the officer's family as they waited for updates from the hospital. Scott said Donohue Jr. lost a lot of blood.
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As of right now it is unclear exactly how the officer was injured during the shootout last night.
According to the Globe story Donohue Jr. and his wife have a 7-month-old son and moved to Woburn about a year ago.
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Donahue Jr. is the brother of current Winchester Police Officer Edward Donohue, according to a Woburn Daily Times Chronicle report.
He is reportedly a 2002 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.
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