Police investigate apparent murder-suicide in Acton – Boston News, Weather, Sports

ACTON, MASS. (WHDH) – Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide that occurred Thursday in Acton, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

Shortly after 4 p.m., Acton police responded to a 911 call about the apparent abduction of a 16-year-old girl by her stepfather, Juliano Santana, 49, prosecutors said. Police contacted Santana’s probation officer, who was able to locate him using a GPS monitoring device that had been placed on him due to an ongoing case, prosecutors said.

Acton police went to a parking lot on Great Road that was in front of the 16-year-old girl’s home, the district attorney said. There, officers found Santana and his stepdaughter dead in Santana’s car from apparent gunshot wounds, according to the district attorney’s office.

Investigators concluded that Santana kidnapped his stepdaughter as she walked along Great Road after school and then shot her and then himself, the prosecutor said.

In 2021, Santana’s stepdaughter alleged that he sexually abused her on multiple occasions, the prosecutor said. Santa was arrested and charged with six counts of aggravated rape of a child, the office said. The trial was scheduled to begin on July 29 of this year.

The Massachusetts State Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.

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