BOSTON (WHDH) - One of the people allegedly shot and killed by a suspect in Winthrop on Saturday afternoon was a retired Massachusetts state trooper, a source has told 7NEWS.

After a man crashed a truck into a car and a building in Winthrop Saturday, he allegedly shot and killed a woman and a man before police shot and killed him, officials said.

Officials have not identified the suspect or the victims, but a source told 7NEWS the man allegedly killed by the suspect was a retired state trooper. When the man’s body was brought to the Chief Medical Examiner’s office in Boston, a group of state troopers, Boston police officers and Boston firefighters lined Albany Street to salute the van carrying his body.

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