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The Boston Police Department is looking into a death at a home owned by Representative Ayanna Pressley's husband -- the four-term congresswoman from Massachusetts, TMZ can confirm.

BPD spokesperson Officer James Moccia tells TMZ officers were dispatched to a home at 25 Malta Street in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood around 1:50 PM local time Saturday.

Initially an "investigate person" call, the situation was later reclassified as a death investigation.

A shocking car chase in Los Angeles ended in a gunfight between LAPD officers and a suspect ... and the whole thing was caught on body cam and dashcam video.

The incident took place on a sunny L.A. afternoon on June 9 in the east Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights ... kicking off when officers sidled up next to a truck -- and the driver gunned it out of there.

Cops chased the truck onto the freeway and then through several neighborhoods ... before it slammed into a hill -- and a man jumped out and started running down the block.

Two U.S. Forest Service employees have been freed after being held at gunpoint for 15 hours in a Northern California national forest.

The horrifying incident went down Thursday at the Shasta-Trinity National Forest ... with authorities being alerted around 11 AM when a Forest Service law enforcement officer called the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office and reported the two employees -- whose identities have not been released -- were zip-tied and being held inside a trailer at gunpoint, according to Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue.

Authorities say more than two dozen law enforcement officers responded to the situation, including a SWAT team, snipers, hostage negotiators, bomb experts, and more. Deputies located the trailer using drones around 1 PM in a heavily forested campground area near Gumboot Lake.

Footage captured by the drones showed one of the suspects carrying an assault weapon and walking in and out of the trailer.

Police have just released body cam footage showing Sunny Hostin's son being cited for trespassing -- it shows her aggressively arguing with cops on his behalf ... and she pulled out the Harvard defense almost immediately.

In the clip, Sunny and her son, Gabriel Hostin, explain what happened to the officers ... telling them he was on a run along the tracks when he saw a hill and decided to head up it.

She then plays the Harvard card ... telling officers he just graduated from the Ivy League school -- and he's an upstanding citizen who teaches 4th-grade geometry, while she herself is a former federal prosecutor. Basically, my son's a good kid -- can we wrap this up?

Scary moment at Beyoncé and Jay-Z's pad this week ... cops say a man crashed his car into the front gate of their swanky New York estate ... and he left in handcuffs.

The 63-year-old motorist drove his car "at a high rate of speed up the driveway" of their East Hampton mansion and smashed through the gates ... according to the police report, obtained by TMZ.

Officers say the man didn't the brakes when he came up on the mechanical gates, allegedly causing "significant damage."

Milania Giudice's sense of humor wasn't dampened by the handcuffs on her wrists or her surroundings in the back of a cop car ... because she still managed to laugh at something during her assault arrest ... and it's all on video.

The Montville Township Police Department on Friday released footage from Milania's May arrest in New Jersey ... she's in the back of a squad car, with her hands cuffed behind her back when all of a sudden she smiles wide and laughs.

The door is open and the officers are standing just outside ... and Milania is talking to them with a grin and chuckle.

Tragedy in Southern California ... police say a 2-year-old boy fatally shot himself after finding a gun hidden between two couch cushions ... and now his mother is under arrest.

The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department says the shooting happened Thursday at a residence in Highland ... deputies arrived at the location and began life-saving efforts, but the child was pronounced dead after being rushed to a hospital.

Law enforcement says the boy's mother, 20-year-old Jamaria Cobb, and her 52-year-old boyfriend, Armand Bright, were inside the home when the fatal shot rang out ... and they've both been arrested on felony child abuse charges and are being held on $1.35 million bail.

The "Today" show intruder suspect is a conspiracy theorist with a lengthy rap sheet ... which includes doing hard time for vandalizing multiple Sandy Hook Elementary School memorials.

Andrew Truelove -- who's been charged with several crimes connected to Thursday's scary incident involving Craig Melvin and Al Roker -- spent years behind bars after he copped to stealing signs memorializing victims of the deadly school shooting.

The transient suspect is a hardcore Sandy Hook conspiracy nut ... and the Los Angeles Times reported that was his motivation when, in 2014, he traveled to playgrounds in New Jersey and Connecticut to steal the memorial signs.

Milania Giudice didn't seem overly concerned after she was arrested for assault ... seemingly cracking a grin and chuckling while sitting in the back of a police car.

Footage taken from cameras inside the squad car -- originally obtained by Page Six -- shows Milania sitting in the back seat, hands behind her back and buckled ... and it looks like she's laughing.

Milania's showing a range of emotions here ... at times there appears to be laughter, and at other times she appears downcast.

NBC isn't taking any chances after the frightening security breach at the "TODAY" show ... 'cause TMZ has learned security outside Studio 1A has been significantly increased ... and sources tell us the changes are here to stay.

TMZ has obtained video showing a noticeably heavier security presence outside the "TODAY" plaza and studio entrance Friday morning. In addition to the usual staffing, multiple private NBC security guards and NYPD officers were stationed around the area.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the heightened security measures are permanent, with the network determined to prevent any copycat incidents following Thursday's shocking security breach.

TMZ broke the story ... Andrew Truelove allegedly slipped past security after entering through the "TODAY" plaza, made his way into a restricted backstage area, then allegedly confronted Craig Melvin, lunging at the anchor while allegedly yelling the N-word.

As TMZ first reported, Melvin and Al Roker have also been granted court-ordered protection against alleged intruder Andrew Truelove. His attorney, Lawrence Gerzog, told TMZ a judge ordered Truelove to stay away from both hosts.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ ... Truelove is prohibited from going near Craig and Al at NBC or at their homes. For now, he's being held at Rikers Island on $20K bail while facing multiple hate crime charges.

Desiigner assaulted his baby mama while she held their child, smashed both of her phones with a hammer and beat down a neighbor's car before his domestic violence arrest ... at least that's what the alleged victim told cops.

According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, the woman told them she and the rapper began arguing after he removed TVs from the walls inside their shared residence. She says he got physical and smashed her two phones with a hammer so she could not call 911.

The woman told cops she sprinted outside with their child and began yelling for help. She originally tried to seek shelter at a neighbor's home, but the neighbor wasn't there. She then went to a different neighbor's home before Desiigner chased her down in a yard and threw her to the ground, ripping her designer handbag from her before throwing the purse.

Will Smith could get roped into the ongoing legal battle between his former friend and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith ... at least if the former friend gets his way ... TMZ has learned.

According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Will's ex-friend, Bilaal Salaam, is making moves to depose Will as part of his lawsuit against Jada.

On July 7, Bilaal wrote an email to Jada's lawyer with his request to depose Will ... but Jada's team fired back, "As for your proposed deposition of Will Smith, there is nothing to meet and confer about."

The man who allegedly stormed NBC's "TODAY" show offices, lunged at Craig Melvin and called him the N-word is now facing a slew of hate crime charges ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement officials tell TMZ ... Andrew Truelove was arrested Thursday at 10:39 AM and booked on hate crime burglary, hate crime menacing, hate crime criminal trespass, and harassment charges. NBC News was the first to identify Truelove as the suspect.

We broke the story ... Truelove slipped past security and stormed NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters Thursday morning, trying to find Al Roker before going after Craig.

Shia LaBeouf's alleged stalker told cops she believed the actor was merely a clone of himself ... and she feared he was being sex trafficked.

Sources tell TMZ ... Alyssa Couture was arrested on July 13 in New Orleans after she allegedly followed Shia to a bank parking lot, where he was with his girlfriend ... and when she was being questioned by police, she made some pretty alarming statements.

A source said Alyssa remained across the street from the bank and was seen pacing around her car while Shia was inside the bank. She claimed she was trying to close the "demon portal."

Cops arrested Alyssa after talking to her. She told officers that the celebrity Shia LaBeouf was a clone that has Shia's DNA and her DNA mixed together. Alyssa claimed Shia's clone was made in a secret lab.

There are more peculiar details of Nolan Wells' last day alive ... and in newly released audio, the friends that were with him on Horn Island were heard calling for help when their boat malfunctioned.

According to audio from the day Nolan went missing -- obtained by NBC News -- the boat Nolan's friends took to Horn Island experienced difficulty before making the journey back to the Mississippi mainland.

It sounds like there were about 7 people on the vessel ... and the call for help was made around 4 PM when the boat's operator said, "Hey, we're at the west tip of Horn, and our bilge pump stopped working. We're going. We're sinking."