The 27-year-old man authorities consider bludgeoned a Marshfield couple to loss of life earlier this week has been arrested in Florida.
Police in Miami Beach, Fla., at round 8:20 p.m. Friday arrested Christopher Keeley, 27, within the 900-block of that metropolis’s West forty first Street, in keeping with the Plymouth DA’s workplace. Keeley now faces an extradition listening to in Florida earlier than going through prices in Massachusetts.
Police performed a wellness test at round 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at 75 Gotham Hill Drive in Marshfield, the place they discovered the bloody stays of Carl and Vicki Mattson, each 70, who lived at that handle. The Mattsons, who had been identified to Keeley, police say, had been bludgeoned and stabbed and had been declared useless on the scene.
The subsequent day, police uncovered their first clue whereas on Keeley’s path early Wednesday afternoon within the type of a black 2019 Jeep Wrangler present in an Avon car parking zone and a Be on the Lookout, or BOLO, was issued not solely in Massachusetts however exterior states, the Herald reported then.
The type and size of the connection between Keeley and the Mattsons is unclear at the moment, however Plymouth DA Cruz stated that “They know each other … so therefore the motive is something we have to find out.”
Cruz added on the Wednesday information convention that authorities consider that Keeley “has mental health issues.”
Keeley’s household was made conscious of the police curiosity in Christopher Keeley for these murders at round 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and stated, by their lawyer Kathleen Fay, that “The Mass State Police have been given the full cooperation of Mr. Keeley’s family.”
“The events that are alleged to have occurred are shocking and truly devastating to all involved,” Fay wrote within the Wednesday night assertion. “Our hearts go out to the entire Mattson family for their unspeakable loss.”
Keeley has a document of committing crimes previously, Cruz stated, in keeping with a earlier Herald report. In 2016, police charged him with unarmed theft and assault and battery after he and one other man allegedly assaulted and robbed a 21-year-old man with autism.
The Herald has reached out to Miami Beach police for additional particulars on Keeley’s arrest.
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