Donald DePina

A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty to multiple charges connected to the November 2015 killing of Vietnam veteran Donald DePina in New Bedford.

Eighteen year old Cameron McCarthy of New Bedford  was sentenced to State Prison on Friday for his role in the fatal shooting and robbery of a city cab driver in November, 2015. The victim, 66-year old Donald DePina was shot and killed  after transporting two men  in his Bluebird Cab to a remote location of Brooklawn Park in the North End...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ The family of a New Bedford cab driver who was shot to death in his vehicle is suing the state Department of Youth Services and the group home the suspect had left. Prosecutors said the then-18-year-old Alexander Mills and another person had Donald DePina drive to a remote location, and Mills shot him in the head before taking his belongings in November 2015...

The man accused of killing a New Bedford cab driver has been arraigned in Fall River Superior Court. The Bristol County District Attorney's office says 18-year-old Alexander Mills was ordered held without bail in connection with the November shooting death of 66-year-old Donald DePina...

A 16 year old suspect charged with the murder of former New Bedford Veterans Agent Donald DePina is being held without bail following his arraignment in Fall River. A spokesman for the District Attorney's office says Cameron McCarthy was arraigned on Friday in Fall River Superior Court...

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says two New Bedford teenagers were indicted this week for the murder of city cab driver Donald DePina in November, 2015. Prosecutors say 18 year old Alexander Mills and 16 year old Cameron McCarthy gunned down DePina after the cab driver had brought them from Purchase Street to Brooklawn Park in his Bluebird cab...

Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month wrapped up Sunday night with a Candlelight Vigil outside New Bedford City Hall. Organizers say the event is to remember those slain by gun violence, and honor their survivors who live with their loss everyday...

What a painful and shameful disgrace to find out from a Jan Ransom Boston Globe story that the 18-year-old charged in the brutal murder of New Bedford cab driver, Donald Depina, simply walked out of a "staff secure" group home in Fall River...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) _ The Department of Youth Services is conducting an internal review to figure out how an 18-year-old with a history of mental illness and a lengthy criminal record was able to flee a staff secure group home in Fall River, only to resurface as a suspect in a killing weeks later...

A New Bedford veteran and former Veterans Agent for the city was laid to rest on Monday. Sixty-six year old Donald DePina was killed on November 28th during a robbery while he was driving a taxi cab in the city's North End. DePina served as the Veterans Agent for the City of New Bedford during the administration of Mayor Fred Kalisz...