Crime & Safety

Report: Alleged Racist Graffiti Tagger Shoots Himself

By Carol Robidoux/Nashua NH Patch

Raymond Stevens, the Pembroke man recently charged in a racist graffiti case, has been hospitalized after shooting himself in the head, according to press reports.

According to an Associated Press report published Nov. 14 in the Nashua Telegraph, Stevens, who is also owner of Tattoomb, a Nashua tattoo shop, shot himself in the head on Nov. 7 – his 43rd birthday – in Hopkinton and remains hospitalized in Massachusetts. 

No other information about his condition or details of the shooting were immediately available.

On Nov. 12 Concord Patch reported that Stevens' attorney entered a plea of "not guilty" for Stevens, who had been scheduled for arraignment the week before.

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