Suspect shot dead after two killed in stabbing attacks

Two people have been killed in stabbing attacks at a home and a shopping centre in Massachusetts before an off-duty police officer shot and killed the suspect.

Bristol County prosecutor Thomas M Quinn III said Arthur DaRosa, 28, of Taunton, crashed a car outside a home in the city, 40 miles south of Boston, walked inside and stabbed two women, one of them aged 80. The 80-year-old was taken to hospital, where she died. The other woman is being treated for life-threatening injuries.