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U.S. NEWS Monday 11 SepteMber 2017

Suspect in 4 slayings in Massachusetts to appear in court

victims.
Neighbor Wagner Alcocer,
52, unwittingly became a
witness when the suspect
showed up at his back
door, naked and muddy,
that evening and calmly
told Alcocer he “just mur-
dered four people,” ac-
cording to Alcocer.
Alcocer told The Associat-
ed Press that the suspect’s
eyes were “very red” and
he had cuts on his body
and blood above his eye
and knee but was unarmed
and seemed vulnerable.
“He looked like a nice kid
who needed help, he was
skinny (and) tall.
I thought he was the vic-

In this Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, photo, police officers take Orion Krause, covered in a white sheet, tim of the prank, or in an
to a police vehicle in Groton, Mass. The 22-year-old recent Oberlin College graduate and jazz accident or had a mental
drummer from Maine will face murder charges Monday in the slayings of four adults found at a health problem.
Massachusetts home. (Courtesy via AP) He wasn’t bleeding pro-
By CRYSTAL HILL miles (69 kilometers) north- violence” but it’s unclear fusely or anything,” Alco-
BOSTON (AP) — A 22-year- west of Boston, the Middle- how Krause is related to the cer said.q
old recent Oberlin College sex district attorney’s office
graduate and jazz drum- said Sunday.
mer from Maine will face Town police found the man
murder charges Monday and two of the women
in the slayings of four adults dead inside the house and
found at a Massachusetts the other woman’s body
home. outside on Friday night.
Orion Krause, of Rockport, The victims’ have yet to be
Maine is scheduled for ar- identified.
raignment in Ayer District Middlesex District Attor-
Court in connection with ney Marian Ryan said the
the deaths of an elderly victims appeared to have
man and woman and two died of blunt force trauma.
middle-aged women in She called the situation “a
Groton, a town about 43 tragic incident of family

Metal band members arrested
in connection with kidnapping

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — tended the heavy metal
The four members of a well- concert, Fuller said.
known Polish death metal Band members were ar-
band have been arrested rested by the Los Angeles
on suspicion of kidnapping County Sheriff’s Office af-
a woman after a concert ter their Friday night con-
last month in Washington cert in Santa Ana, Fuller
state, authorities said. said. They are 27-year-
The members of the band old Michal M. Lysejko,
Decapitated were ar- 35-year-old Waclaw J. Kiel-
rested early Saturday in tyka, 31-year-old Rafal T.
Santa Ana, California, on Piotrowski, and 30-year-old
suspicion of kidnapping a Hubert E. Wiecek.
woman after their Aug. 31 All are Polish citizens.
concert in Spokane, Spo- “After they finished playing,
kane Police Department they were kind of hanging
spokeswoman Cpl. Teresa out,” Santa Ana police Sgt.
Fuller said in a statement. Javier Aceves told the Or-
The woman told police just ange County Register on
before 2 a.m. on Sept. 1 Saturday.
about the alleged kidnap- “There was nothing dra-
ping by the band mem- matic.”
bers, Fuller said. They are being held in the
The band had performed Los Angeles County Jail
at a concert in downtown and will face extradition to
Spokane. The woman at- Spokane, Fuller said.q