New Bedford Murder-Suicide

Bristol County District Attorney’s Office

Thomas M. Quinn III
District Attorney

Press Release

June 2, 2023

The victim in this morning’s murder-suicide on Phillips Road in New Bedford can now publicly be identified as eight-year-old Dante Hazard.

The Bristol County District Attorney’s office, along with Fall River Police, New Bedford Police and Massachusetts State Police have been actively been investigating the March 2019 disappearance of Lisa Hazard. Through our Missing Persons and Unidentified Bodies Initiative, the Lisa Hazard case was one of several cases highlighted on our website, in press releases and through regional media interviews.

As part of this missing person investigation, about two-and-a-half weeks ago detectives executed a court-issued search warrant at 1643 Phillips Road. Those search warrants have been sealed by the court as part of the ongoing investigation into Ms. Hazard’s disappearance. 

This morning at approximately 8:09 am, New Bedford Police received a request for a well being check for George Scott III and Dante Hazard, who were living at 1643 Phillips Road.  The well being check was requested by a relative who had not been able to get in touch with Mr. Scott.  Upon entering the residence, police this morning located the deceased bodies of both individuals. It appears from the evidence recovered at the scene to be a murder-suicide. Mr. Scott appears to have killed the boy with a sharp object before taking his own life.  We are awaiting the medical examiner’s confirmation of these and other details.  

Dante Hazard was the son of Lisa Hazard and George Scott III.

Mr. Scott is a person of interest in the disappearance of Ms. Hazard, and that investigation remains active at this time.

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