(29 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portsmouth, New Hampshire — 29 August 2024
1. STILL photo of law enforcement blocking a ramp to Interstate 95 and the Piscataqua River Bridge PHOTO ID: 24242428314094
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Kittery, Maine — 29 August 2024
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. William Ross, Chief of Maine State Police:
"At approximately 2:30, Kittery Police located the male’s vehicle on the Piscataqua River bridge parked in the southbound lane in the state of Maine. Right in the middle of the bridge. Law enforcement agencies from New Hampshire and Maine responded and tried to negotiate with the male. The bridge was shut down for several hours to protect the public while the negotiations were attempted and the scene was secured. "
3. Driving shot over bridge
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portsmouth, New Hampshire — 29 August 2024
4. STILL photo of law enforcement blocking a ramp to Interstate 95 and the Piscataqua River Bridge PHOTO ID: 24242428314168
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Kittery, Maine — 29 August 2024
5. Various of bridge
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. William Ross, Chief of Maine State Police:
"Negotiations were ultimately unsuccessful. The male then exited his vehicle, and at that time he raised a firearm. Maine State Trooper Craig Nielsen and two New Hampshire state troopers responded with deadly force. The male subject was located deceased in the water below the bridge and was declared dead in the scene. He fell from the bridge."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. William Ross, Chief of Maine State Police:
"Law enforcement officers on scene located an 8-year-old child fatally shot in the back seat of the vehicle. This death is not associated with the officer’s use of deadly force. I want to stress this right now that the child’s death is not associated with the police officer’s use of deadly force today. "
STORYLINE:
A man being pursued in the killing of a woman in New Hampshire was shot to death by police and tumbled from the Interstate 95 bridge that connects the state to Maine, officials said Thursday. An 8-year-old child was found dead in the man’s vehicle.
The child’s death was “not associated” with gunfire from three law enforcement officials who discharged their weapons after the man stepped out of his vehicle and raised a gun, William Ross, chief of Maine State Police, said at a press conference in Kittery, Maine.
Ross repeated the statement to emphasize that police gunfire did not kill the child.
The man’s body was recovered from the water below the bridge by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Piscataqua bridge connects Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Kittery, Maine — and tens of thousands of vehicles cross the bridge daily. The bridge reopened early Thursday after being closed about seven hours. Traffic was backed up on both sides as drivers were diverted to two other bridges.
According to Ross, the man called to report a domestic altercation in Troy, New Hampshire, where police found a woman’s body about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away in the western part of the state, and then drove to the bridge, officials said.
No names have been released.
Between 70,000 and 80,000 vehicles use the Piscataqua bridge each day, according to the Maine Department of Transportation.
AP video shot by Rodrique Ngowi
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