Investigators Ask for Tips After Concord Child Homicide

CONCORD, NH – The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and Concord Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect or suspects of the death of a 3-year-old girl in March.

The death of Jayleah Bureau, 3, on March 15, 2016, has been ruled a homicide by investigators due to “blunt force trauma,” according to Jay McCormack, an assistant Attorney General.

Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to Canton Circle in Concord after receiving a 911 call about an unresponsive female child. Bureau was transported to Concord Hospital for treatment and was pronounced dead at the hospital. The next day, an autopsy was conducted to determine the cause of death and was deemed a homicide.

“The circumstances surrounding this homicide remain under investigation,” McCormack noted in a press statement.

No other information was released.

Anyone with information regarding Bureau or her death is urged to contact Det. Sgt. Sean Ford at 603-320-3728 or Lt. Timothy O’Malley at 603-230-3734 of the Concord Police Department or they may leave an anonymous tip at the Concord Regional Crimeline at 603-226-3100.

In her obituary, family noted that Bureau loved singing and dancing around the house. A service was held on March 23.

Her grandmother raised more than $7,000 to pay for burial expenses in a GoFundMe.com effort saying that she was “an angel since birth” and was always smiling and laughing.

“I miss you soo much already it hurts,” she wrote.