Homeless Man Indicted On Murder Charge: NH AG

MANCHESTER, NH — Indictments have been handed down in a shooting incident case from last year in Manchester, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. John Gebo, 31, a homeless man, currently incarcerated on other charges, was indicted in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North for knowing second-degree murder and first-degree assault. According to Jeffery A. Strelzin, Senior Assistant Attorney General Chief, Homicide Unit, officers were sent to 135 Spruce St. in Manchester on June 1, 2016, for a report of a shooting.

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When they arrived, officers found a woman wounded in the leg and another individual – Hans R. Odige, 35 – deceased on the ground due to a single gunshot would. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Bedford NH Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Police identified Gebo as a suspect “after an intensive investigation,” Strelzin stated. He was arrested about a week later for four counts of reckless conduct, felon in possession of a firearm, and a sale of a narcotic drug warrant after allegedly firing a handgun on West Street in Manchester firing five shots into a West Street home on June 8, 2016. Also arrested at the same time were Kevlin Reddick, unknown address, for sale of a narcotic drug, and Brandon Griffin, 28, of Lowell Street in Manchester, for possession of a controlled drug-crack cocaine and falsifying physical evidence.

Gebo was also wanted for a reported shooting incident on May 19, 2016, on West Street in Manchester. He was indicted on the West Street shootings late last year. Gebo waived the murder and first-degree assault indictment and is expected in court on Sept. 13, 2017.

Gebo, according to online reports, including Patch, was arrested after a burglary incident in Derry a few months before the shooting after surveillance footage reportedly caught him inside the house.