BARNSTABLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Jury selection is slated to start Monday in the trial of a 33-year-old man accused of fatally shooting Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon in 2018.
Thomas Latanowich, of Somerville, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Gannon, who was killed at the age of 32 while serving an arrest warrant at a home on Blueberry Lane in Barnstable on April 12, 2018.
Gannon’s K-9 partner, Nero, was also shot and wounded during the incident. The dog has since recovered.
Latanowich left a series of frantic text messages for his girlfriend as well as a voicemail in which he said “I shot a cop” and “I killed a cop,” according to a state police report.
He remained barricaded inside the home but eventually surrendered and was taken into custody.
The jury selection and trial is expected to take about four weeks.
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