At 2:07 a.m., the man called 911 and said that he and his wife had a fight and that she was now dead.
Twenty minutes later, in the early hours of August 29, cops in Maine found the man on the Piscataqua River Bridge, which connects New Hampshire and Maine.
The guy, whose name has not been made public, was parked on the side facing south in Kittery, Maine, according to the Maine State Police.
The so-called “High Rise Bridge” was closed in both ways “for several hours” while police in both states tried to talk to the man. When they failed, the man got out of his car and pointed a gun at them, police said.
The man was hit by three state cops, one from Maine and two from New Hampshire. He fell into the river below.
He was later found dead in the water by police, who pronounced him dead at the scene.
When police went into the man’s car, they found a child, whose name has not been released, shot and killed in the trunk. Maine State Police say this child was not involved in the officer-involved shooting.
Police in New Hampshire found a woman, whose name has not been released, dead in a home in Troy, New Hampshire. The guy had told police that his wife could be found there.
“They’re a family: a husband, a wife, and a child,” Col. William Ross of the Maine State Police told Western Maine TV.
According to a press release from the New Hampshire Department of Justice later that same day, “the exact circumstances surrounding this incident remain under active investigation.” Investigators think the man killed his wife “overnight” and then drove off on Interstate 95.
As usual, the Maine Attorney General’s Office is looking into the officer’s use of deadly force. The three troops have been put on administrative leave until those results are known, according to the Maine State Police and the New Hampshire Department of Justice.
The case is being looked into by the Major Crimes sections of both state police forces and both attorney general’s offices.