Saugus Shooting Suspect, Victim Identified

SAUGUS, MA — The Essex County District Attorney's office on Saturday released the identities of the shooter and victim in Friday's shooting at a Saugus Mobil station.

William McFeely, 63, of Everett, shot and killed Frank Trombetta, 63, of Everett, just after noon on Friday. The two men were brothers-in-law. McFeely was later found dead of an apparent suicide in his 2016 white Mini Cooper at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett.

Trombetta was a mechanic at the Mobil gas station in Cliftondale Square where the shooting occurred. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital after being shot twice in the chest, where he was pronounced dead.

Police began looking for the McFeely's 2016 white Mini Cooper and warned that the man was armed, possibly with a shotgun.

In 1999, Trombetta and his wife Lorraine were arrested after a domestic dispute. When police searched their Everett home, they found five children ranging in age from 22 months to 13 years old shivering in the basement. The home was littered with beer cans, animal feces, rotting food and cockroaches. The children were placed with relatives and in foster care after the arrest.

"It was a family that had a long on-and-off involvement for various kinds of neglect issues, but never ones that rose to the level that we saw" after the arrest, Lorraine Carli, a Department of Social Services spokeswoman, told the Associated Press at the time.

Frank Trombetta was eventually acquitted of domestic assault and battery after a jury trial in which his wife refused to testify against him. The trial was moved to Barnstable County after defense attorneys argued Trombetta could not receive a fair trial because of the media attention the case had drawn. The case received national media attention and the state Department of Social Services fell under scrutiny after it was revealed the agency had received 13 complaints from school officials and neighbors about the Trombettas.