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Boston EMT accused in shooting commits suicide

By John P. Kelly
The Patriot Ledger

BOSTON — A Boston emergency medical technician indicted this month on charges that he shot two brothers outside an Abington house party in September was found dead Monday of an apparent suicide, his attorney said.

Peter C. Horstmann said he spent most of Monday morning with Rhys Williams, whose emotional state seemed “nothing out of the ordinary.”

“He had a lot of hope,” Horstmann said. “This was a very defensible case.”

Full story: Williams had been ordered to home confinement