MA Teen Killed By Stepfather In Suspected Murder-Suicide: DA

ACTON, MA — Authorities are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a teenager and her stepfather in Acton Thursday afternoon, according to the Middlesex District Attorney.

Authorities received a call around 4 p.m. reporting an apparent abduction of a 16-year-old girl by her stepfather — 49-year-old Juliano Santana — before finding them both dead by apparent gunshot wounds in Santana's car outside the teen's home on Great Road.

They were able to find Santana's location based on a GPS monitoring device that had been placed on him as a result of a pending case in Middlesex Superior Court, according to the district attorney.

"The subsequent investigation suggests that Santana abducted the victim as she was walking on Great Road near her residence after school and later shot her and then himself," the district attorney said, adding that the teen in this case is the same victim in the pending criminal case against Santana.

The teen reported on Sept. 7, 2021 that Santana had sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, resulting in Santana's arrest and arraignment on 6 counts of aggravated rape of a child.

Bail was set at $30,000 with conditions that he be placed on a GPS monitoring device, stay away from and have no contact with the victim, and have no unsupervised contact with anyone under 18. The victim also had an active restraining order against the Santana.

The trial date had been scheduled for July 29, 2024.

The investigation into Thursday's incident is ongoing.