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Braintree Motel 6 where officer was shot closing to 'make improvements'

BRAINTREE, Mass. — The motel where a Braintree police officer was shot earlier this month will be closing for six weeks.

Town leaders held a meeting Thursday night about Motel 6, where police say 292 people were arrested on warrants between 2010 and 2016.

“Motel 6 recognizes this is an overhaul of their operations that is long overdue,” Braintree Police Chief Paul Shastany said.

The motel will voluntarily close on June 1 and remain closed until at least July 13 while they implement changes.

“We’ll hold their feet to the fire,” Shastany said. “I want to see model plan, Substantive changes, physical changes, they may not have occurred, but plans. I want to see a place where people can stay and feel safe.”

A motel spokesman said that an additional armed security guard has been hired since the shooting, and cash payments are no longer accepted.

Officer Donnie Delaney was shot in the face at the Motel 6 on May 5 while serving a warrant to 25-year-old Tizya Jordan Robinson.

“As a former police officer whose law enforcement came to an end as a result of on duty injury I was shocked and saddened to hear about the injury to officer Delaney,” Motel 6’s Vice President of Safety and Security told Braintree leaders Thursday.

Delany was released from the hospital the following day, but still had shrapnel in his head. He underwent surgery and is said to be at home and doing well.

Robinson died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with police that lasted several hours.

Drew Karedes was at the meeting in Braintree tonight and will have more details about the required changes for the motel on Boston 25 News at 10.