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EverettsPride
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 Posted - 08/18/2007 : 12:09:28 AM
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There was a murder tonight on Sea Street. The police and medical examiner are still there. Seems a husband in his late 50's early 60's , shot his wife. They arrested him not to long afterwards at a liquor store in Malden. What a sad thing to happen.
Sally
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ItalianDevil021
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Posted - 08/18/2007 : 08:44:44 AM
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| What a horrible thing to have happened...my thoughts and prayers are with the family... |
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unknown
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Posted - 08/18/2007 : 11:29:24 AM
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FROM SAT. BOSTON HERALD
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Everett woman gunned down: ‘Quiet’ neighborhood in shock as shots ring out
By O’Ryan Johnson
Saturday, August 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:09 AM EST
A 65-year-old Everett woman was shot and collapsed on a neighbor’s porch, where she died in what a witness described as an attempt to flee from her attacker.
“She’s on the front porch,” said a neighbor with a view of the crime scene.
“She’s in blue. Blue jeans and a blue top, and she’s laying on her face. There are police around her. I don’t see any ambulance yet.”
Neighbors identified the woman as Dorothy Philbrook, a longtime resident of Sea Street, where she lived with her husband in a home with an apartment that they rented.
One neighbor described hearing three shots, followed by a man’s voice yelling.
“He said, ‘Call the police,’ ” the neighbor said.
Residents of Sea Street said the neighborhood is an extremely quiet place with no police presence, except for the state police trooper who lives near the shooting scene and parks a cruiser in his driveway.
“We have children, so we just stayed inside,” said a neighbor who said she heard “pops” about 8:30 p.m. “We didn’t go outside or look out the window. This is a quiet neighborhood.”
At the scene, neighbors consoled one another, while Philbrook’s son stood nearby weeping.
“Everybody on the street knew Dotty,” said neighbor Rachel Musker. “They’ve lived on the street for about eight years.”
Police raided the home where the woman collapsed shortly after the shooting. A man who answered the phone there identified himself as “Everett Fire.”
The killing of the older woman who neighbors called “Auntie” shocked neighbors who said they knew her as a kindly lady fond of children.
Everett police referred calls to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, which confirmed there was a person shot and killed on Sea Street. DA spokesman Corey Welford said the killing is under investigation.
“My God,” said one neighbor. “We love her. She’s so sweet.”
Mike Adaskaveg contributed to this report
- ojohnson@bostonherald.com
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massdee
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Posted - 08/20/2007 : 2:46:14 PM
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| What a sad story. |
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Lynda
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Posted - 08/20/2007 : 2:48:30 PM
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| Did anyone see what happened today in court for the man who shot this woman? I missed the 12:00 news. The poor family having to go through this. God Bless them. |
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whatsup
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Posted - 08/20/2007 : 8:48:44 PM
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| That is so sad. God Bless the families. |
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charm
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 08:03:29 AM
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here you go lynda
Man arraigned in fatal shooting of wife
Portrait emerges of beleaguered pair
By April Yee, Globe Correspondent | August 21, 2007
EVERETT -- Outside his gray three-decker, he repaired neighbors' cars and patched teenagers' blown tires. He told the teenagerss to call him Uncle. George Philbrook liked to connect with his neighbors, so much so that he built a swinging door into his backyard neighbor's picket fence so they could see each other easily.
But recently, friends noticed he spoke less and less. On Thursday, he told a teenager who lived across the street that he was tired of taking the painkillers his doctor had been prescribing.
"I'm not feeling well," he would tell friends when he wanted to be left alone, said his backyard neighbor, Peter Bruno, 65.
Bruno noticed that Philbrook rarely spoke of Dorothy Philbrook, 65, the former wife with whom he had reunited nearly two decades ago, after a divorce 10 years before. "They didn't get along," Bruno said. But he never heard them fight.
Friday evening, Dorothy Philbrook died across the street from their home after being shot in the left arm, shoulder, and head. Yesterday at his arraignment in Malden District Court, George Philbrook pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, resisting arrest, and carrying, while intoxicated, a firearm without a license or missing a serial number.
Since the couple reunited, they had lived in the three-decker on Sea Street that their son, also named George, had helped Dorothy to buy.
The couple once had a joint bank account at Eagle Bank, but now they were broke, according to the police report. About a year ago, Dorothy had begun to buy scratch tickets, which George blamed for what he said was $50,000 missing from the Eagle Bank Account, the report said.
He and Dorothy split their holdings and opened separate accounts. He also told their 16-year-old granddaughter, who lived with them, that if he found out Dorothy was hiding the money, he would shoot her in the kitchen eight times, making sure her remains covered the room, the report said. Since he was laughing, the granddaughter didn't take him seriously or tell her grandmother.
Recently, Dorothy had started working at her son's pizza shop, Nana's in Revere. On Friday at 1 p.m., she finished her shift.
Seven hours later, standing outside her home, she used her cordless handset to call her son's cellphone, the police report said. George Philbrook was "at it again," she told her son. He had locked her out and perhaps changed the locks.
Inside the house, Philbrook picked up the other line, the police report said, and listened while Dorothy told her son that she was fed up and would call the police to have Philbrook kicked out.
Their son could hear Philbrook begin yelling and couldn't understand what his father was saying, but he left the pizzeria.
By the time he completed the milelong drive, Sea Street was cordoned off, according to the police report.
Neighbors had heard four or five shots, the report said. "Take that," the neighbors said they heard him say between shots. "Take that. Take that."
Standing over her body, which was lying face down in his neighbor's driveway, he said, "Now call the [expletive] police."
Cowering behind their windows, neighbors watched Philbrook calmly walk away and put a gun back in its holster, according to police reports.
Fifteen minutes later, upstairs neighbor Jean Sylvester's phone rang, the report said. It was Philbrook, apologizing for not being able to fix his car that night because he wasn't feeling well.
At 9:15 p.m., police found Philbrook less than a mile away at a liquor store buying a six-pack of beer, candy, and cigarettes. In a holster on a black leather belt, he was carrying a .380-caliber semiautomatic, its serial number filed off. His left pants pocket held 42 rounds of ammunition. His other pocket had six, police said.
Yesterday afternoon, Bruno walked around the corner to Philbrook's three-decker carrying a bouquet of carnations and day lilies inside an old glass jar that once held chocolate sprinkles. On the cellophane around the flowers, he had written "For Dotie."
Bruno carefully duct-taped the jar to an iron fence. "I not only lost one," he said. "I lost two, two good friends."
He returned home the long way, going around the block, avoiding Philbrook's driveway blocked by cars in various stages of repair and the little gate leading straight to his home.
April Yee can be reached at ayee@globe.com.
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Lynda
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 09:35:29 AM
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| Thank you charm. That poor family. |
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Ellen
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 10:01:40 AM
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| Charm, thanks for the update. |
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Lynda
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Posted - 08/21/2007 : 6:25:58 PM
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Dorothy A. "Dottie" (Roche) Philbrook
Of Everett, August 17, 2007, at 65 years. Beloved mother of George S. Philbrook and his wife Erica of Georgetown and Cathy Philbrook of Everett. Cherished Nana of Shenise and Evan Philbrook. Loving sister of Harriet Tammaro of Everett, James Roche of Pelham, NH, and the late Charles and John Roche. She is also survived by many dear nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend a funeral at the J.F. Ward Funeral Home, 772 Broadway, EVERETT, on Wednesday, Aug. 22nd., at 11 AM. Visiting hours will be held on Tuesday from 4-8 PM. In her memory donations may be made to help prevent domestic violence to: Portal to Hope, 45 Elm St., Everett, MA 02149. For directions and online guest book visit jfwardfuneralhome.com J.F. Ward Funeral Home (617) 387-3367
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