Boscawen Chief Says There Is 'No Concern For Safety' After Water Street Incident

BOSCAWEN, NH — The police chief in Boscawen said there was no concern for public safety after a gunshot incident Thursday morning on Water Street.

Around 9:30 a.m., Merrimack County Dispatch sent Boscawen officers as well as the Penacook Rescue Team to a report of a gunshot wound. Jason Killary, the police chief of Boscawen, said Webster police, the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office, and Boscawen and Concord firefighters were also requested to the scene. When they arrived, they found a woman in her late 50s “inside the home with serious bodily injury from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head area,” he said.

Fire and rescue teams and officers made “immediate lifesaving measures,” and she was conscious while taken to Concord Hospital by Penacook Rescue.

“There is no concern for public safety,” Killary said.

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