Man barricades himself inside building in Hingham Shipyard; shoots at police

By adamg on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 11:03am

Update: Suspect came out at 12:15 p.m.

At 9:30 a.m., Hingham Police reported:

We have a barricaded subject inside home on HMS Fitzroy Dr. with a gun who fired shots at the SWAT team. No injuries. Immediate residents have already been evacuated. Reverse 9-1-1 telling others in general area to shelter in place away from windows.

This is a very active scene and we are working to negotiate with subject who is alone in house. Shipyard Drive is closed to thru traffic.

At 11:04, police updated that:

The Foster Elementary School has been opened as a place for anyone who needs to stay inside a warm shelter. We have buses available to help transport people who need to stay indoors.

One of the scariest moments of my life just happened. Was in the Hingham Shipyard at an appointment and there is an active shooter barricaded by SWAT less than half a mile from where I was Never thought I would be hiding from a shooter with 6 other women. On the way home now https://t.co/0hPZ477nGo

— christina grogan (@stinagrogan) January 25, 2020

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HMS Fitzroy

By Parkwayne on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 12:01pm.

I googled it and that was a destroyer built in Hingham at the expansion shipyard of the Fore River shipyard during WWII. It was a UK naval ship.

Of many cool things to time travel back to see, the full scope of WWII era ship building in Fore River region would have been pretty amazing. On the downside, the harbor must have been unbelievably gross then with human and industrial waste. The Hingham yard (this is all per wiki) only ran from 1941 to 1945 and during that brief period employed 25000 people and built an astounding 277 ships. And then, war over, it just closed up shop. The main Fore River yard stayed open a lot longer of course.

Interesting choice of vessel

By Friartuck on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 2:42pm.

Another fringe person upset by Harry and Meghan?

Too funny

By anon on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 5:29pm.

I assume you're referencing real and troll racist? But, on a side note, there are many accounts or Ms. markle-Saxe-Coburg Windsor and Harry Saxe-Coburg Windsor being God awful snobs.

277 ships in 4 yrs!?

By anony-mouse on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 3:36pm.

I'm guessing a modern shipyard does what, 2 per year?

HMS Essington, too

By Not Confused on Sun, 01/26/2020 - 12:55am.

There's another street nearby named after this ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Essington_(K353)

They were the PT boat annex

By anon on Sun, 01/26/2020 - 3:43pm.

They were the PT boat annex of Quincy yard , set a lot of records for production. The ammo dump was on the other side of rte 3a, plus a tad north was a Nike missile site. The only thing left of the Hingham yard is the big smoke stack, the rest of the area has gone nouveau chic. The area was an interesting military industrial complex to be sure.Of interesting note , the entrance to the yard had an large GSA warehouse, and the ship building was owned by Bethlehem Steel, whose Quincy master at one time was Joe Kennedy sr.

Now in custody

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 2:51pm.

In custody, no injuries. Bomb dog sent into apartment to make sure.