Former Waltham Cop Shoots Wife, Turns Gun on Himself

WALTHAM, MA -- A police officer shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide in Waltham this weekend, authorities said.

Kevin O’Connor, 51, shot his wife, Jeannine O’Connor, 51, multiple times at their home before pulling the gun on himself, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan and Waltham Police Chief Keith MacPherson said in a statement Tuesday.

O’Connor was a retired Waltham police officer.

“This is a tragic incident of domestic violence in which a husband was responsible for taking his wife’s life and then taking his own,” Ryan said in the statement. “Our thoughts are with the O’Connor and Peabody families as they struggle with their loss.”

On Saturday, Jan. 16, at approximately 5 p.m., Waltham officers responded to a family member’s request for a well-being check on Forest Street. When they arrived, they found the two residents deceased, both with gunshot wounds.

This case is being investigated by the Waltham Police Department and Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.