DA: Duxbury mother under police custody for murder charges in deaths of her 2 children - Boston 25 News

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DUXBURY, Mass. — Authorities issued an apprehension warrant for a Duxbury parent successful transportation with the deaths of her 2 young children who were recovered unconscious successful their location connected Tuesday night.

Lindsay Clancy, 32, volition beryllium charged with 2 counts of homicide, 3 counts each of strangulation, and battle and artillery with a deadly weapon, successful the deaths of 5-year-old Cora Clancy and 3-year-old Dawson Clancy, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Wednesday.

Lindsay Clancy, the parent of these children, is nether constabulary custody successful a Boston infirmary arsenic of Wednesday night, Cruz said.

Arrest warrant issued for Duxbury parent Lindsay Clancy for 2 counts of homicide, 3 counts of strangulation & 3 counts of battle & artillery w/ deadly limb for deaths of 5 year-old Cora Clancy & 3 year-old Dawson Clancy, injuries to 7-month-old lad #Boston25 pic.twitter.com/hYoGgEOnak

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A 7-month-old babe lad survived and was flown to Boston Children’s Hospital. His information was not known Wednesday night.

Lindsay Clancy was besides taken to a Boston hospital. Her information is chartless arsenic well.

“As soon arsenic able, we volition beryllium arraigning her connected the 2 charges of execution successful the deaths of her children,” Cruz said.

Police responded to 47 Summer St. astir 6:15 p.m. aft a man, aboriginal identified arsenic Lindsay Clancy’s husband, arrived astatine the location and called 911 to study a woman’s attempted suicide. Cruz said Lindsay Clancy had jumped retired of a second-story window.

When archetypal responders arrived, they discovered 3 unconscious children nether the property of 5 wrong the home. Cruz said each of the victims sustained “obvious signs of terrible trauma.”

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Cora, the 5-year-old girl, and Dawson, the 3-year-old boy, were taken to a section hospital, wherever they were pronounced dead.

While an autopsy volition find the nonstop origin and mode of their deaths, Cruz said that “Preliminarily, it appears the children were strangled.”

People near flowers astatine the extremity of the driveway of the Summer Street location each day.

“Shocked. Very shocked,” said Tom McGrath, a neighbor.

Several section congregations person opened their doors to connection religion and enactment for those who request it successful the aftermath of this South Shore tragedy.

“It’s astir thing you can’t wrapper your caput around. I person kids that are the aforesaid age. It hits home,” said Pastor Jeremy Stanford.

Flowers extracurricular of Duxbury location

Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed that Lindsay Clancy is an worker there. The infirmary released a connection connected Wednesday that said: “We are shocked and saddened to larn of this unthinkable tragedy. We widen our deepest sympathies to each those affected by these devastating events.”

Cruz called the incidental “an unimaginable senseless tragedy” and noted that it didn’t hap randomly.

He besides acknowledged the exigency crews who archetypal witnessed the tragic country erstwhile they responded to the home.

“I’m definite galore of them volition not hide what they saw past evening,” Cruz said.

Duxbury Fire Chief Rob Reardon said archetypal responders are being offered added enactment during this hard time.

“Tragedies similar these are ever hard to comprehend and process. We whitethorn beryllium near struggling with galore emotions. Please cognize that each nationalist information unit person been offered, and volition proceed to beryllium offered, needed support,” Reardon said.

“To each those who responded: We attraction astir you. If you are a workfellow successful request of support, delight scope out,” Reardon said.

Duxbury Town Manager René Read said archetypal responders are receiving enactment from adjacent enactment groups wrong the instrumentality enforcement community.

“In these seemingly intolerable moments, our enactment for them is perfectly critical, and we’re committed to ensuring their good being,” Read said, warring backmost tears.

The outpouring of enactment from the Duxbury assemblage “has been tremendous,” Read said.

“It’s been remarkable. The churches person each opened their doors. People conscionable privation to bash something,” Read said. “It’s tough.”

The Rev. Bill Ferguson from the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury told Boston 25 that 8 churches from their Interfaith Council opened their doors to marque definite radical had a spot to go.

“It is hitting hard. If you are a genitor of a young child, adjacent if you are not, erstwhile children are progressive particularly --- There is simply a peculiar numbness that comes successful with that,” Ferguson said.

Ferguson explained however immoderate of his parishioners are archetypal responders and determination is simply a batch of interest for them – aft what they saw successful the Summer Street home.

“We place the archetypal responders and the effects these tragedies person connected them, erstwhile they archetypal brushwood them. I cognize the section has enactment them connected permission for their ain intelligence wellness to question help,” Ferguson said.

State troopers assigned to Cruz’s bureau are assisting Duxbury constabulary with the investigation.