Good morning and welcome to T&G This Week, your ticket inside the newsroom of the Telegram & Gazette. I’m Mike McDermott, executive editor of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
The violent events this week in Spencer that left a gunman dead and two people, including a police officer, injured, were traumatizing for the local community. It was also, as Brad Petrishen wrote Thursday, just the latest in a run of difficult events for Central Massachusetts police departments so far this year.
I was proud of the way our newsroom came together on short notice to cover this important public safety story. Here’s how it happened…