A childhood friend of Mark Wahlberg and small-time actor recently killed his mother and was shot dead by police.
According to WCBV Paul Campbell was discovered standing over his 72-year-old mother’s dead body, armed with knives outside her home in Weymouth, Mass.
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Norfolk County District Attorney, Michael Morrissey, told WCBV that, “The two officers appeared to make a simultaneous decision that the use of force was necessary and they both discharged their weapons.”
The 49-year-old man acted in several films with small roles and according to The Boston Globe was also a long-time friend of Wahlberg.
Campbell appeared in several of Wahlberg’s films including The Fighter, Ted, and more recently in American Hustle.
Buy not only did he have connections in film but also had ties in Boston politics.
Campbell fathered a child with Lorrie Higgins – the Mayor of Boston, Martin Walsh’s, girlfriend of eight years, when she was in high school.