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Wednesday, May 13

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We have continuing coverage of the farewell to Massachusetts State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor, who will be laid to rest in Salem today, plus the latest on the Cambridge shooting rampage that left two people critically injured. We're also tracking our next rainmaker and when we can expect warmer weather. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your headlines.

An outpouring of support is expected today at the funeral for fallen Massachusetts State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor, who will be laid to rest in Salem.

Trainor’s funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. at St. James Church on Federal Street in Salem — a city where he had deep connections. Trainor graduated from Salem High School in 2013 and Salem State University in 2019, and his family continues to live in Salem.

City officials have said thousands of state and local police officers are expected to come to Salem to pay their respects to Trainor, a week after he was killed in a wrong-way crash on Route 1 in Lynnfield at the end of his shift.

A little before 5 a.m. on Feb. 27, Steven McCluskey stepped onto an escalator and descended toward the subway platform at the MBTA’s Davis Station in Somerville, Massachusetts.

The escalator ride would be the final moments of the 40-year-old’s life.

Once he reached the bottom, surveillance video the NBC10 Boston Investigators obtained shows McCluskey lose his balance and fall to the ground. He would never get back up.

An injured firefighter is back home for the first time since a devastating fall during a training exercise at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy.

Chelmsford firefighter Nick Spinale spent 33 days in the hospital after the fall in Stow. He’s running out of paid time off, with Chelmsford and the state fighting over who’s going to pay him.

“Some people were told, ‘He might not make it,'” Spinale said Monday after getting home from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. “It’s crazy hearing it.”

Court documents obtained by NBC10 Boston reveal key new details about Monday’s shooting in Cambridge, which left two men critically injured.

The criminal complaint, written by Massachusetts State Police Trooper Christopher Hardy, includes the eight charges gunman Tyler Brown is now facing, including two counts of assault to murder with a firearm, two counts of assault and battery attempt with a firearm, one count of possession of a large capacity firearm, one count of carrying a firearm without a license, one count of possession of ammunition without an FID card, and one count of discharging a firearm within 600 feet of a building.

It also includes a detailed statement of facts, saying that the incident actually began at 12:10 p.m., about an hour before the first shots were fired in Cambridge, when a Massachusetts parole oficer called Boston police to report concerns with one of his parolees, identified as Brown. The parole officer said Brown was a known crack cocaine user and had told him in a phone call “that he had relapsed and was ready to end his life.” He said Brown had a drug screening scheduled for that day. The parole officer said Brown is known to carry knives and had previously been involved in an officer-involved shooting, had a history with firearms and owns an assault rifle.

We’re learning more about the two people wounded in the chaotic shooting on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday.

Both were rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, authorities said after the incident. Neither has been publicly identified.

But family members of one victim told NBC10 Boston that he was just headed to get his car washed when the shooting broke out.

Our next rainmaker is taking shape today. It hasn’t quite reached peak form as it waits for upper-level energy to draw in more water vapor and help deepen the storm.

The bottom line is that we’ll see very little rain today and plenty later tomorrow and early Friday.

Downpours are even expected through the evening drive on Thursday, something we haven’t seen much of this spring.