A pregnant woman, approximately eight months pregnant with an unborn child, opened fire at a Massachusetts hotel overnight, injuring a bystander who was in the lobby before shooting and killing herself, officials said.

Incident Details

According to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., the woman arrived at the Sturbridge Plaza Hotel on Haynes Street around 1 a.m., looking for two people. He did not specify the relationship between the three people involved, but described the situation as domestic violence.

Investigators believe when the woman arrived, she drove her SUV into the building and began firing a gun from outside the building, striking a hotel guest who was in the lobby. Investigators believe that person was a bystander and not the shooter’s intended target. They were taken to Harrington Hospital and later airlifted to UMASS Hospital in Worcester, where they remain in critical, but stable, condition.

Sturbridge Police Chief Earl Dessert said his officers responded and tried to de-escalate the situation. Instead, the woman shot and killed herself. Officials said they later realized the woman was about eight months pregnant with an unborn child.

Response and Investigation

Three of the officers and the state trooper that moved into the hotel did it after they knew there was gunfire, multiple shots had been fired, but at their own risk and to their personal safety, moved in quickly and tried to make sure everyone in the hotel was OK and that this didn’t escalate into a further situation of violence and gunshots,” Early said.

The entire incident was over in about 10 minutes, Dessert said, and there is no greater danger to the town. The two other people known to the woman were unharmed. They are not from Sturbridge, and the suspect was not previously known to police.

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