"A 3-way tangle preceded shooting" March 16, 2012|By Kathy McCabe and John R. Ellement
BEVERLY - In a phone conversation on the afternoon of Feb. 24, Beverly police Officer Jason Lantych offered to meet Hamilton police Sergeant Kenneth Nagy. Lantych said he would discuss the relationship he had with Nagy’s wife - but only “in a public place so he wouldn’t get shot.’’
“Nagy just laughed it off,’’ according to a State Police report.
Details of the violent confrontation that followed between the two men and Katherine Nagy’s relationship with Lantych are contained in investigative reports released Thursday by Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett and the Beverly Police Department. The reports provide the first insight into a motive for the attack that stunned the North Shore.
Moments after meeting that afternoon at a North Beverly Starbucks, where Lantych “admitted to having a relationship’’ with Nagy’s wife, Nagy pulled out his department-issued .40-caliber Glock and shot Lantych in the wrist and upper right thigh before fleeing in his car.
Nagy, 43, a 19-year veteran of the Hamilton Police Department, returned to the scene several hours later, killing himself in the Starbucks parking lot with a gunshot to his head....
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