Attempted First-Degree Murder Trial For Homeless Concord Felon Set For February 2026

CONCORD, NH — A homeless felon facing 18 charges, including attempted murder, was in court Wednesday for arraignment and dispositional conferences.

Vincent Allen Mott, 33, is currently being held on preventative detention, after being arrested on multiple charges, including first-degree murder-attempt, first-degree assault, two second-degree assault, reckless conduct-domestic violence-deadly weapon, felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, and felonious use of a firearm. He was accused of shooting another man in the face in Healy Memorial Park, an area near Exit 13 on Interstate 93 that has become a massive homeless encampment during the past few years. He was captured a couple of months later in Bicentennial Square.

In Merrimack County Superior Court, attorneys for Mott waived arraignment. They asked for a status conference to be booked on the three dockets other than the attempted murder case.

Charlotte Mary Boghossian, a public defender, said the parties were working on an agreement.

“A plea, likely,” she said, “but at least, for today’s purposes, a status conference.”

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Charges that will probably be part of the plea deal include domestic violence and strangulation charges, where he was accused of assaulting an intimate partner in mid-July 2024, after being arrested on the Massachusetts warrant; receiving stolen property-$1,501-plus — a stolen motorcycle, from early September 2024, a few months after Mott arrived in Concord via Massachusetts and Nevada; one drug sale charge, two possession charges-methamphetamine and fentanyl, and two acts prohibited counts from late September 2024; and felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, falsifying physical evidence-concealing fentanyl, and two possession charges from Jan. 20, all felonies. Boston police also wanted Mott for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

“Offers have been made and countered?” a clerk asked.

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“Yes,” said James Bradley Bolton, an attorney from the Merrimack County Attorney’s Office.

A status conference was booked for May 22 on the 10 charges.

Judge Dan St. Hilaire was not in attendance for the arraignment.

The clerk and attorneys also booked dates for Mott’s trial on attempted murder and other charges.

A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 15, 2026, with jury selection to start on Feb. 3, 2026.

At the time of the attempted murder arrest, Mott had a string of warrants after failing to appear on a revocation charge and a requisition case status hearing in Concord District Court on Oct. 24, 2024, after being released on $2,000 cash bail; failing to appear on the prowling, receiving stolen property, drug sale and possession charges on Oct. 28, 2024; and failing to appear at a dispositional conference hearing in Merrimack County Superior Court on second-degree assault-domestic violence-strangulation and domestic violence-simple assault charges on Oct. 30, 2024.

The Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit arrested him in Bicentennial Square in March.

Mott is a felon, according to police, and prohibited from possessing a gun due to a September 2017 conviction on a felony level Nevada Statute NRS 205.465.2 in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada. The law involves “possession, sale or transfer of document or personal identifying information to establish false status or identity; penalties; rebuttable inference that possessor of personal identifying information intended to unlawfully use such information,” according to Nevada state law.

The status of the Boston assault case is unknown at the time of publication.

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