Shooting in town where I work

[Feil]

Boston.com / AP

At least 2 dead in N.H. shooting

July 2, 2007

CONWAY, N.H. --At least two people died in a shooting Monday morning in Conway, a prosecutor said.

"There may be another body," said Ann Rice, a senior assistant attorney general.

Witnesses reported hearing shots around 10 a.m. at an army-navy store on busy Route 16, the main road through town.

Authorities closed the highway and urged people to stay inside their homes or workplaces. A small army of law enforcement officers, aided by helicopters and dog teams, searched for a man described as armed with a small handgun.

Several people were taken into custody as the day wore on. But at mid-afternoon, Rice could not say whether the suspect was in custody or whether authorities knew his identity.

The man was described as blond, 5 feet 10-inches tall, and wearing a baseball cap and camouflage shorts.

Fran Duncan, who works about a mile away at the Lamplighter Mobile Home Park north of town, said state police asked her to call all of the community's residents and warn them to stay inside as they searched for a man with a gun in the woods. Duncan said the park has more than 200 homes, many of them second homes.

She said she was told there had been a shooting down the road and the suspect was in the woods with a gun.

"I can hear the helicopter up there and there's police everywhere," she said.

Store manager Dick Poulin got similar news.

"I was told they were looking for someone described as wearing camouflage shorts, blondish hair, automatic weapon. That's all I needed to shut down and lock my doors," Poulin told unionleader.com. Poulin is assistant manager of the state liquor store across the street from the site of the shooting, called the Army Barracks.

Poulin and four employees locked themselves inside the liquor store, the Web site said.

Dick Stevens, who works at Saco Canoe Rental, also across the street, said he was outside his store when he heard two shots about four seconds apart. Stevens, 77, said he turned and saw a young man run around the Army Barracks to the north and into the woods.

The store sells camping equipment and gear such as knives, stun guns and paintball guns, but no firearms, company official Marilyn Brabents said. She told unionleader.com the store's manager usually arrives before the 10 a.m. opening to check inventory and do payroll.

Conway, NH is the town where I work and shop. I'm posting from work.

[chitoryu12]

I once drove through my town's little "Vice City" area. Right after we left there was a gunfight at the same intersection I stopped at. Even better, my mother passed through an area of town down the road and decided to leave because of how creepy it was. One week later, a guy in a Scream mask killed a girl.

[Vampiress_Miyu]

I once drove through my town's little "Vice City" area. Right after we left there was a gunfight at the same intersection I stopped at. Even better, my mother passed through an area of town down the road and decided to leave because of how creepy it was. One week later, a guy in a Scream mask killed a girl.

.....That's really freaky, man. O.o If that happened to me, I'd never go around there again... Or, if I did, I'd bring a camera and film it all.

[Pollux]

I once drove through my town's little "Vice City" area. Right after we left there was a gunfight at the same intersection I stopped at. Even better, my mother passed through an area of town down the road and decided to leave because of how creepy it was. One week later, a guy in a Scream mask killed a girl.

...This frightens me, if it happens with such regularity that two random passer-by have their visits to the town linked with violent crime.

[Feil]

And an update: The probable perpetrator was captured Tuesday by Fryeburg's Finest because he was too fucking stupid to evade capture in a region of the world with miles upon miles upon miles of uninhabited wilderness, in the summer, where anyone with two neurons to rub together should be able to gather enough food in the wild to stay alive and healthy.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegio ... at=&page=2

[Superman]

So Ann Rice takes time from her writing to work as an assistant attorney general? Good. Her writing sucks, especially the corny dialogue.

[Noble Ire]

And an update: The probable perpetrator was captured Tuesday by Fryeburg's Finest because he was too fucking stupid to evade capture in a region of the world with miles upon miles upon miles of uninhabited wilderness, in the summer, where anyone with two neurons to rub together should be able to gather enough food in the wild to stay alive and healthy.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegio ... at=&page=2

Odd that that sort of thing doesn't occur to most criminals, isn't it? I live in NH, and I could walk out of my door right now into the woods and hole up somewhere for quite some time completely undetected, or walk to Canada, for that matter. I guess this guy just thought no one would report a lone man walking aimlessly down railroad tracks.