Police kill man on Piscataqua River Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine, child and woman found dead
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - The Piscataqua River Bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine was shut down for more than six hours Thursday after police shot and killed a wanted man and then found a child dead in his car.
According to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, the unidentified man killed a woman at a home on Monadnock Street in Troy overnight and then drove nearly 100 miles to the bridge on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth, which is at the state line with Kittery, Maine.
Formella's office said police "engaged" with the man on the bridge and shot him.
8-year-old killed
"Police on the bridge also found an 8-year-old child fatally shot in the male adult's vehicle. The exact circumstances surrounding this incident remain under active investigation," the Attorney General's office said in a statement Thursday morning.
The Maine Attorney General's Office is also looking into the shooting on the bridge.
Piscataqua River Bridge closed
"There is no threat to the general public at this time," Formella's office said.
The bridge was completely shut down around 3 a.m. New Hampshire State Police said it was reopened to traffic around 9:30 a.m.
Traffic was diverted to the two other local bridges in the area for more than six hours while the bridge was closed.
No other information is available at this point in the investigation.
