A Bedford woman has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for fatally shooting her parents as they sat in a car in her boyfriend’s driveway, records show.

Jessica L. Cavallaro, 24, was charged in Middlesex Superior Court with two counts of first-degree murder for he allegedly killed his parents on June 6 while they were parked in the driveway of the Bedford home where Cavallaro was staying with her boyfriend’s family, according to court records.

Thelman J. Tatten was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound to the head, while her husband, Mark A. Cavallaro, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, was rushed to an area hospital where he later He was pronounced dead from a single gunshot. gunshot wound to the head, records show. They were both 56 years old.

Cavallaro, 24, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court on Oct. 15 and ordered held without bail at MCI-Framingham, the same condition imposed. following his arrest shortly after the shooting on Washington Street in Bedford.

The deaths of Tatten and Mark Cavallaro were the first homicides in Bedford since 1982. impacting the suburban community, the Globe reported.

Cavallaro’s parents had arrived at the house to take their daughter to breakfast after she returned from work. He came home early because he had had a panic attack, according to court records.

The gun used to kill the couple belonged to Cavallaro’s boyfriend, Jarred Marchesini, who lived with his parents, David and Joyce Marchesini, on Washington Street.

David Marchesini told police that Cavallaro went to his room for about half an hour, then came downstairs and said he was going to have breakfast with his parents, according to the report.

Cavallaro “left (her boyfriend’s) residence before returning a few minutes later saying she had killed her parents,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.

Prosecutors said they opted to seek the harsher penalty because Cavallaro showed no signs of a mental health crisis before the shooting and also indicated he was aware of what was happening when he invoked his constitutional rights while in police custody.

“All witnesses who interacted with the defendant considered her sane, lucid and happy in the days leading up to the murder, as well as both the night before and the morning of the murder, prior to work-related anxiety,” prosecutors wrote. “During the search (by Bedford police), the defendant was calm, cooperative, articulate and ultimately chose to invoke rights that demonstrated that she had the ability to discern that it would not help her to speak to the police.” .

Cavallaro’s defense attorney, Lorenzo Perez, has requested at least $1,500 to have a forensic psychiatrist or forensic psychologist evaluate the mental health of the 24-year-old woman at the time of the murders, according to court records.

The expert is necessary to “evaluate the defendant’s competency to stand trial, his criminal responsibility and/or whether he had diminished capacity at the time of the crime,” Pérez wrote in court documents.

During the first hearings, Perez said it was clear to him that Cavallaro suffered from a serious mental illness.

Under Massachusetts law, first-degree murder carries a life sentence without parole. Someone found not guilty by reason of insanity is sent to a state psychiatric hospital where they remain until experts conclude they are no longer dangerously mentally ill and they are released.

A scheduling conference is scheduled for Nov. 19 at the Woburn courthouse, records show.

You can contact John R. Ellement at [email protected]. follow him @JREbosglobe.