Chicopee teen slays mom, shoots self

A 15-year-old boy stabbed his mother to death before fatally shooting himself with his grandfather’s gun in their Chicopee home Thursday, authorities said.

Firefighters responded to the Lauzier Terrace home just before 1 p.m., where they were met outside by 88-yearold John Danehey, who had activated his medical alarm after hearing a gunshot and a “disturbance” inside, according to the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office.

Inside, police found his daughter, Mary Danehey, 50, dead, with “numerous” stab wounds, and her son, Joshua Guyotte, who appeared to have died from a single, selfinflicted gunshot wound, prosecutors said. A firearm licensed to his grandfather was found near his body, said Michael Wilk, a Chicopee police spokesman, who noted it was unclear how Guyotte gained access to the gun.

Although police had no record of violence at the home, Wilk said the killings came within hours of a meeting attended by Guyotte, his mother and administrators at Chicopee Comprehensive High School, where he was a freshman.

“At the request of school administrators, Ms. Danehey removed her son from school due to behavior issues,” the DA’s Office said in a statement, without elaborating.

School officials did not return calls or emails seeking comment.

“It was nothing that amounted to a police response,” Wilk said, although a school resource officer also attended the meeting.

“It’s a shock to everyone, I think,” he added. “We really don’t have a motive right now. In this type of community, this kind of thing almost never happens. Our condolences go out to the family.”

Yesterday, John Danehey said only: “It will all come out in the investigation. We all have to survive, don’t we?”

Two neighbors described his grandson as “sweet,” “kind” and “considerate,” the kind of boy who used to ask if they needed help in their yard and wave as he walked by on his way to the bus stop.

“The last few weeks, I noticed he wouldn’t wave,” said one woman, who asked that her name be withheld. “I never thought this would happen.”

About two years ago, her husband said, Guyotte told him that he had started working out in the hopes of joining the Marines.