Crime & Safety

Foxborough Police to Donate $500 to Assist MBTA Transit Officer Donohue's Recovery

Foxborough Police officers Charles Gallagher and James Fahey will be delivering the Foxborough Police Relief Association check in hand next week to assist MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue Jr. in his recovery following last week's shootou

The Foxborough Police Department is reaching out to its wounded brother, MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue Jr., to assist in his recovery from a gunshot wound suffered in last Friday’s shootout in Watertown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.  

“The Foxborough Police Relief Association will be donating $500 to the MBTA Police Association Benevolent Fund to assist officer Donohue in his recovery,” Foxborough Police said Wednesday on its Facebook page. “Foxborough police officers Charles Gallagher and James Fahey, both former Transit police officers, will be delivering the check in hand next week.”

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"He was shot through the anterior thigh and there was an entrance wound and no exit wound so the bullet remains in the leg," Nauta said Sunday, adding that there were no fractures and partial transection of three out of the four blood vessels that are in the leg. "There was bleeding from the wound that led to cardiac arrest at the scene."

Nauta said cariopulmonary resuscitation was started on Donohue at the scene and continued in the emergency room, where there was a "transfusion of fluids and blood products to the point of restoration of the pulse and pressure at which point he went into the operating room."

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Nauta said while Donohue was in the operating room, doctors “made an incision in the lower abdomen to clamp the artery to the leg (because) you could not clamp it through the wound and you could not see anything through the wound."

"We stopped the bleeding and we called in our cariovascular folks to reconstruct the blood vessels to and from the leg," Nauta said.

From the time of the shooting to the time he was in the operating room, less than an hour had passed, with about 15 minutes for transport and 45 minutes spent in the emergency room, according to Nauta.

Nauta, who also serves as chairman for the Department of Surgery at the hospital, said the bullet remained in the leg as of Sunday. During the conference, Nauta said Donohue Jr. had not spoken, as there was a breathing tube inserted in his mouth. 

Fobxorough Police reported Donohue has shown “some positive signs of recovery” but it “will be a long and difficult road for him and his family.”

Donohue, 33, of Woburn, is married with a seven-month-old son and has been a member of the MBTA Transit Police Department for three years.

The MBTA Police Association Benevolent Fund, Inc. is seeking donations to assist him, and his family, in this difficult time.

If anyone is interested in making a donation to help officer Donohue’s recovery, click this link for more information. Donation checks can be dropped off at the Foxborough Police Station on or before Tuesday, April 30th. Officers Gallagher and Fahey will hand deliver your checks as well as the $500 from the Police Relief Association.


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