NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Investigators were on scene in New Bedford Friday after the Bristol County District Attorney’s office said a father allegedly killed his young child before killing himself in an apparent murder-suicide.
The father, officials said, was also a person of interest in the case of a woman who disappeared in 2019 and the son of Red Sox legend George Boomer Scott.
The DA’s office said New Bedford police first responded to a home on Phillips Road shortly after 8 a.m. after a request for a well-being check.
Once inside, officials said police found two bodies, identified as George Scott III, 53, and Dante Hazard, 8.
“He was playful,” neighbor Kevin Forward said of Dante. “He would run around the property and throw the ball around with his dad. They were very quiet — kept to themselves.”
The DA’s office said it has been investigating the March 2019 disappearance of the boy’s mother, Lisa Hazard, with detectives executing a search warrant last month at the same house where Scott and Dante were later found dead.
Bristol County DA Thomas Quinn said Scott previously reported Lisa missing in April, 2019, one month after she disappeared.
“Her body has not been located,” Quinn said.
While investigations into the recent apparent murder-suicide and Lisa Hazard’s disappearance was ongoing as of Friday afternoon, officials said Scott had been living in the Phillips Road home with Dante prior to their deaths.
“This, obviously, is a tragic situation that may be a development in the case but we’ve got to review the evidence in this case,” Quinn said, referencing both the murder-suicide and Lisa’s disappearance.
Quinn said evidence found at the crime scene on Phillips Road on Friday included several knives, adding “there appear to be serious injuries to the boy’s body.”
“That’s sick,” one neighbor said. “A lot of sick people out there.”
“Any time anyone loses their life in a violent way, in particular a child, it’s very troublesome,” one other man said.
The official date and cause of death for Scott and Dante Hazard is expected to be determined from the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s review.
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