Drake Scott was 23 and building a music career when he took the stage for an open mic night at the City Limits Saloon in Randolph. After his set, he stepped outside and was ambushed by a man it is not clear he even knew.

Laura Shifrina was a retired scientist living in Needham senior housing when a family member arrived to check on her in May 2017—only to find her murdered.

District Attorney Bill Keating called Greg Connor to a murder scene in Stoughton in the early morning of March 16, 2010. Former Brockton High School hockey player Stephen Erving, 21, had been lying in bed when an assailant put several 9-millimeter rounds through his bedroom window.

On the morning of July 15, 2018, Greg Connor responded with Weymouth and State Police officers to the scene of the murder of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and bystander Vera Adams.

In 2013, Greg Connor partnered with the office’s animal protection expert to prosecute an animal torture case that shocked the conscience and the nation. Kiya, the dog first known as “Puppy Doe,” was found starved and mutilated near a park in the City of Quincy. With no eyewitnesses, the case was built on complex forensics, making Greg the first prosecutor in Massachusetts to convince a judge to admit canine DNA as evidence.

In July of 2009, Ronald Pratt was sleeping in a homeless encampment behind a self-storage building in Weymouth. He was found dead with 46 stab wounds on the morning of July 19.

Greg Connor was surrounded by almost two hundred supporters, including retired police chiefs, state legislators, defense attorneys, and detectives he has worked with, and the parents of the victim in a murder case he successfully prosecuted, as he formally announced his candidacy for Norfolk District Attorney this week.