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Massachusetts man allegedly killed roommate, 80, after being ‘too close’ to Thanksgiving food
A Massachusetts man allegedly killed his roommate on Thanksgiving for standing “too close” to the food he was preparing because the roommate “often sneezes,” although he claims the killing was an accident.
Richard Lombardi, 65, was charged with assault and battery on a person 60 and over, causing serious injury and involuntary manslaughter, according to Boston 25 News. He pleaded not guilty in Plymouth District Court.
Lombardi is accused of attacking his 80-year-old roommate Frank Griswold at their home in Marshfield on Wednesday after he became upset that his roommate was too close to the food he was preparing for Thanksgiving.
Griswold, was pronounced dead at South Shore Hospital on Wednesday night after Lombardi allegedly threw him to the ground, hitting his head and breaking his neck and nose.
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Richard Lombardi, 65, was charged with assault and battery on a person 60 and over, causing serious injury and involuntary manslaughter. (iStock)
According to court records, Lombardi told police he was cooking a meal when he began arguing with Griswold and told him he did not want him in the kitchen touching the food.
Lombardi said Griswold “often sneezes” and he did not want him to “sneeze or contaminate the food,” which was near the sink. Lombardi said he left the kitchen and later returned to Griswold standing near the food doing dishes.
He said he grabbed Griswold from behind and threw him aside, adding that his “feet got tangled up, and he fell and hit his head on the floor,” according to Boston 25.
Richard Lombardi, 65, is accused of attacking Frank Griswold, 80, after he became upset that his roommate was too close to the food he was preparing for Thanksgiving. (iStock)
Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Joseph Presley said Lombardi did see Griswold near the food and that “he went over and grabbed Mr. Griswold from behind, grabbed his back and threw Mr. Griswold to the right and tossed him to the side.”
Lombardi said he called 911 when he noticed Griswold was unconscious and bleeding from his head. Griswold also suffered cuts on his face.
“He was seen laying[sic] face-up on the floor in the kitchen in a pool of blood,” Presley said.
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Lombardi said Griswold “often sneezes” and that he did not want his roommate to “sneeze or contaminate the food.” (iStock)
Lombardi’s attorney, Marshall Johnson, said the incident “sounds like an accident based on what the evidence was that was revealed in court.”
Johnson said Lombardi and Griswold were friends for about 30 years and roommates for more than 20 and that his client was devastated to find out Griswold had died.
Lombardi is being held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 4.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is in a Florida hospital in critical condition, his spokesman said Sunday.
The spokesman, Ted Goodman, would not specify which hospital and said that the former mayor “remains in critical but stable condition.”
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” he said, before asking “that you join us in prayer” for the former mayor.
It is unclear when Mr. Giuliani, 81, was taken to the hospital.
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called Mr. Giuliani a “True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
He used the occasion to again advance his false claim that Democrats “cheated” in the 2020 election.
“They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!” he said.
Mr. Giuliani has struggled with legal and financial problems in recent years, and in the summer of 2025, he was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire in which he suffered a fractured vertebra. After that, Mr. Giuliani made at least one public appearance in a wheelchair.
Mr. Giuliani became mayor in January 1994 after he defeated Mayor David N. Dinkins, who was running for a second term. He remained in office until December 2001 and helped lead the city in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Later, he became a personal lawyer to Mr. Trump during the president’s first term and quickly became embroiled in a number of investigations related to the presidency.
Mr. Giuliani was a crucial part of the team that helped Mr. Trump advance the claim that he won the 2020 election. After Mr. Trump left office, Mr. Giuliani was indicted multiple times and contended with a number of costly defamation suits related to those efforts. Now disbarred, he has kept a far lower profile during Mr. Trump’s second term in office.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
Gunshots were fired in a daytime armed home invasion in Saugus, Massachusetts, on Sunday, police say, and the two suspects are in custody.
No one was hurt in the shooting on Oakwood Avenue about noon, Saugus police said. Two Boston men, Derek Matarazzo and Timothy Gregory, are facing felony charges including home invasion after their arrest shortly after the 911 calls came in.
The calls reported two men in masks, dressed in black, armed with guns, breaking into a house, police said. They didn’t share what led to the gunfire or how the men were tracked down, saying only that the department wasn’t speculating on their motivation.
Matarazzo and Gregory are believed to be the only people directly involved in the home invasion, police said, and it’s believed to be an isolated incident, so there’s no danger to the public.
Neighbors who spoke with NBC10 Boston say they are shaken up by what occurred, describing a shootout right outside their homes in the middle of the day.
Ring camera video from a nearby home shows the aftermath, as neighbors say you can see the homeowner running into the middle of the street with a phone pressed to his ear, desperately flagging down police — after the chaos.
A neighbor tells us his family first heard what sounded like a pop — something they thought could’ve been a lawn mower backfiring, until they realized it was gunfire. That neighbor says one of his daughters then saw a man carrying a safe — dropping it in their front yard — while shots were being fired.
“I saw somebody come out of the house shooting and then we all hit the deck, because you didn’t want a stray bullet to ricochet off something and come through the window or anything like that,” George Benn said.
“I saw the shots. I saw a man go down. I thought he was going to be dead but apparently he just flipped on that hill,” Tom Bushee said.
The investigation is ongoing.
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