Concord Man Arrested On Several Felony Criminal Threat Charges

CONCORD, NH — A man from Concord is facing several felony charges after being accused of threatening a woman with a knife and stabbing a doorway.

On April 3, a police officer was sent to a Walker Street home after the department received an anonymous tip accusing Gary Edward Livingstone, 53, of Walker Street, of stabbing a doorway and threatening a woman.

The officer arrived and spoke with Livingstone, who they confirmed from a prior booking photo, and then met with the victim. She accused Livingstone of becoming violent and making threatening comments, which she wrote in a notebook. The officer eyed the woman’s notes — which claimed he said he was going to “shoot” her, “put on the ground and burn your eyes out,” and “back slap” her “across the face,” the affidavit stated. The officer requested to take a picture of the notebook, but the woman refused, so the officer wrote down the comments.

While speaking with the woman, the officer noticed several puncture marks on a bedroom doorframe.

“The slash started from the top of the door and stopped approximately near the doorknob hole,” the officer wrote.

The slashes appeared to be from a knife, the officer wrote. When asked about them, the woman pointed to a knife on the floor in front of the doorway and accused Livingstone of stabbing the doorframe sometime before Easter (March 31), the report stated.

The woman also accused Livingstone of making comments about the knife the night before, on April 2, while she was pretending to be asleep, the officer wrote. When she woke up the next day, the knife was on the floor, she said.

The officer estimated the damage to the door to be about $100. The officer seized the knife as evidence and then attempted to call the tipster but was unable to reach them. Dispatch told the officer the tipster said they received text messages from the woman about the knife incident, an affidavit stated.

The officer spoke with Livingstone, who denied making threats or slashing the doorframe, the report stated. Later, the officer said they talked to Livingstone by phone and they accused him of admitting to damaging the door three months prior.

“He also stated that the knife I seized possibly belonged to him,” the officer wrote.

A warrant was issued for his arrest and an emergency domestic violence order was requested and granted by a judge at Concord District Court.

On April 4, Livingstone was arrested on two felony counts of domestic violence-criminal threat against a person-deadly weapon and two felony counts of criminal threatening-deadly weapon and a criminal mischief charge.

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