Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, a stately 90-year-old Romanesque church with an Italianate tower in Worcester, will be demolished sometime between Friday, August 9 and Wednesday, August 14, the pastor said.
The church, built in 1929, stands next to Route I-290, which church officials say has contributed to its deterioration. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester closed the church in 2016 because it needed millions of dollars' worth of repairs, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
A non-citizen immigrant who admitted showing two men a gun and threatening to shoot them has had his quasi-guilty plea thrown out because the trial-court judge gave him one warning that he might be deported because of it but not two.
Court papers say Denver Petit-Homme on August 6, 2016 drove to a barber shop near the intersection of Washington Street and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, left the vehicle, approached two men, showed them a gun in his waistband, and threatened to shoot them. Then he got back in his vehicle and drove away.
