At noon on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad Troopers responded to a residence in Barnstable to assist a SWAT Team comprised of local Cape Cod police officers with a situation involving an armed barricaded subject.

Upon their arrival the Troopers learned that the subject had fired upon officers with a rifle and barricaded himself inside the residence. The Troopers deployed two PacBot 510 tracked robots and a Spot four-legged robot to assist in locating the subject inside the residence. Deployment of the remote-controlled robotic platforms allowed the team to safely gather crucial intelligence and provide situational awareness of the suspect and the home’s interior.

The Troopers conducted interior and exterior robotic operations to systematically check the house – first deploying the Spot robot through the two top floors of the residence and cleared them.  The Troopers then deployed Spot into the home’s basement, when the male suspect suddenly appeared from a bedroom armed with a rifle.

The Troopers would later discover that that Roscoe had been shot three times by the suspect and had been rendered inoperable.

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