Thursday, 4:30 PM
Fugitive in Boston cop killing case captured in Quincy
(Tom Herde/Globe Staff)
Thomas Shay, shown above in police custody in 1992 at Logan International Airport, served 10 years in prison for helping plant a bomb under his father's car in Roslindale that killed one police officer and maimed another.
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
A yearlong manhunt for Thomas Shay, who violated his probation after serving time for killing a Boston police officer, came to an end this morning as US marshals tracked him to his mother's home on Beacon Street in Quincy and found him sleeping in a second-floor bedroom.
Shay, 35, who served 10 years in prison for helping plant a bomb under his father's car in Roslindale in 1991 that killed officer Jeremiah J. Hurley Jr. and maimed Officer Francis X. Foley, was arrested last July in Spencer on drug and larceny charges and fled to avoid going back to prison for violating the terms of his federal probation, according to the US Marshal Service.
Supervisory deputy US Marshal Jeffrey L. Bohn said deputy marshals and Boston and Quincy police went to Shay's mother's home at about 9:30 a.m. today after receiving information that he was there.
"Everybody in his family said he wasn't there," said Bohn, adding that the task force quickly discovered that they weren't telling the truth. "He was sleeping in a room by himself."
It's the third time Shay has violated his probation since he was released from prison.
Bohn said Shay was believed to have been moving around a lot over the last year, sometimes dressing as a woman to disguise himself, and had been tracked to Maine, New Hampshire, and Chicago before his arrest today.
Shay is scheduled to appear in US District Court this afternoon.
rising
falling 