Crime & Safety
Court Confirms Conviction Of Man Guilty Of Shooting Ex To Death, Wounding Another
The Supreme Court confirmed a conviction of a man found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend.
WORCESTER, MA — The murder conviction sticks.
The Supreme Judicial Court this week affirmed the murder conviction of William Goddard in the shooting death of a woman in Webster in January of 2008, according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
Goddard was indicted by a Worcester County Grand Jury in June of 2008 and a Superior Court jury found him guilty of first degree murder in October of 2012. His conviction was subject to an automatic appeal to the SJC. The court affirmed the conviction on Thursday.
On Jan. 28, 2008, Goddard shot and killed his former girlfriend at a business on Railroad Ave. in Webster. She was pronounced dead at Hubbard Regional Hospital that day, and a man was also wounded. The man survived. Goddard then fled Webster and was eventually tracked to a field off Jones Road in Berlin. After a standoff with State Police negotiators, he was subdued and arrested.
