GREENLAND, N.H. — One police officer was killed and four others were injured in a shootout in a small New Hampshire seacoast town of Greenland on Thursday when an armed suspect fired on officials entering the home while conducting a drug investigation.
State Attorney General Mike Delaney said the shooter and a woman remained holed up in the home around 10:30 p.m., about four hours after the initial confrontation.
“We are working with federal state and local law enforcement to try to obtain a peaceful resolution,” he said late Thursday. “I do want to extend my thoughts and prayers to families and relatives and loved ones of the police officer that has been killed and the four police officers that have been injured.”
Streets all around the home were blocked off and officers stood at roadblocks in the pouring rain.
State police and officers from many departments went to the community of about 3,500, about five miles from Portsmouth.
The names of the officer killed and those injured have not been released because their relatives have not all been notified.
Delaney said he couldn’t provide much other information about the shooting.
“We do have an active armed standoff at a home and were simply not going to provide any information right now that may jeopardize that situation,” he said.
Gov. John Lynch was at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, where the officers were taken.
“This is a tragic incident, and my thoughts and prayers are with the officers involved and their families,” he said.
Associated Press Writer Norma Love in Concord contributed to this report.
Things are getting bad out there the States and the United States better do something fast.
“Fast” isn’t a good idea. We got to where we are by “acting fast” without much prior thought.
WTF has happened to our country? These are great officers of a small town. I hope they take out the scumbag (and he IS a scumbag) who did this. I know some of these people. My prayers go out to their families.
Law Enforcement is a dangerous job. I have massive respect for the officers who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
Two of the officers that were wounded were shot in the chest. I wonder why they were not wearing bullet proof vests especially if they were executing a warrant with a potentially dangerous individual? It didn’t say what they were shot with either. A vest won’t do much good if a high power rifle was used. Hopefully all the officers that were wounded recover soon and condolensces to the family of the Chief of police who was killed.
you answered your own question buddy
you can still be wounded being shot with a vest dude. A .45acp 10 feet can deliver 500 ft/lb of force. That is like a mua tai knee to the chest. Can break ribs and such.
The story does NOT mention a warrant, as a matter-of-fact the reporter seems to go out of his way to avoid mentioning this small detail.
Read some other articles and you will see they were serving a narcotics warrant. And there are many exceptions to a warrant requirement, are you insinuating that because they didn’t have a warrant they deserved to be murdered?
Come into my house without a warrant and find out how I feel.
they had a warrant dude.
The post you replied to was not directed at you, but to OIFvet_2010. There is NOTHING in this story which said they had a warrant. ….and I spent my childhood summers working a ranch in Oklahoma. I’m NOT a dude.
Ok tough guy
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Not so tough… just protected by the Constitution and the law-of-the-land. If you in fact ARE an Operation Iraqi Freedom Vet. you should know that. That would be the same Constitution you swore an oath to defend.
BDN isnt exactly thorough with their online articles this one ran last night at 10pm and many more details have been released.
oh this was an AP associate in NH from last night I don’t know why they haven’t run a new article this morning this seems like pretty big regional news..
Well Harry, according to the morning news, they were executing a warrant. I am an OIF vet and OEF vet. Don’t tell me what is jusified unless you’ve served in uniform.
I did an internship @ Rockingham County Sheriffs Office while I was going to school @ UNH. I don’t know which departments were conducting the search or whom responded but in my 6 month internship I had the chance to meet many of the fine law enforcement officers of the New Hampshire Seacoast community. My heart and thoughts are with all of them and their families today.
Get everyone else out of that house and throw a grenade in there, the shooter doesn’t deserve to live, IMHO.
Good plan;
Suppose there are also innocent people in there?
Also, in the United States we have this pesky little law about bringing people before the bar of justice before we execute them.
Well he is dead now. Be it by his bullet or another’s.
Apparently you didn’t read the first 7 words of my post. And that pesky little law gets thrown out the window when someone takes fire at law enforcement. It’s called self defense.
Sounds like The Seacoast Regional Tac unit was called in Because the four officers shot were from Dover, Rochester, UNH, and Newmarket PD.
The Greenland PD police chief Mike Maloney was tragically murdered by that piece of trash. I had met Mike while out serving papers with the patrol deputies and he was a wicked nice guy.
Declare a war and people die. The US drug policy is a shambles. This has been going on since the late 1960’s.
We need to start all over again and make some laws which are fair, enforceable, and that do not enrich people who take the risks of bringing drugs in, or manufacturing them here in the USA.
maybe so but this is not the appropriate forum for drug policy reform. For either side of the Argument, Chief Maloney doesnt need to be a martyr for anti-drug zealots or the anti-“war on drugs” camp.
I disagree The WAR ON DRUGS is directly responsible for Maloney’s death and the deaths of many others.
Oh yeah, this is a “COMments” forum. Therefore (in a free society) I get to post mine. I do not need your self-righteous pronouncements on what is, or what is not “appropriate.
I believe its indirectly responsible. Mutrie pulled the trigger and therefore is the direct cause of the chiefs death. I am not trying to be self righteous and I didn’t mean this comment board. I meant the intangible forum that is derived from this event. You are free to post as you will. I mean in general there will be words bandied about by many different people. Tragedy often becomes forum for agenda pushing and I fell it is disrespectful to those who gave their lives in the event.
I tend to agree with you that the war on drugs is a farse and antiquated policy but I don’t believe Maloney should become a martyr for either cause.
I don’t understand “COMments” why did you accentuate the com?
I accentuated the “COM” because that is the way the Bangor Daily News does it in the print edition. The section is called “COMments” I’m assuming because of the dot-COM.
I agree Maloney and his remaining family should not become poster children for either side of my argument, HOWEVER Maloney is a martyr by definition.
The Boston Herald is reporting that the suspect who shot the officers, killing one of them, is dead.