Crime & Safety
Second Start Shooting Still Under Investigation: Concord Police
Watch: Concord Deputy Chief Thomas: Victim was a 17-year-old male student, no one else was harmed during the shooting, and info is limited.
CONCORD, NH — A student suicide at Project Second Start on North State Street Wednesday is still under investigation, with limited information available, according to Concord's deputy police chief. John Thomas updated media outlets for about 5 minutes outside Concord police headquarters about the case at the private, nonprofit high school for at risk students, but admitted he couldn't speak much about the incident since it was an open investigation. Thomas said the victim was a 17-year-old boy who was a student at the school.
No one was injured during the shooting, "and we are thankful for that," and the shooting did not occur in a classroom, he said.
Training by the department for terror and school shooting incidents, which has been extensive by since Sept. 11, "kicked in" and seemed to work well with state, county, and firefighters, all working together to secure the scene, evacuate students, and find out what was going on, he said.
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Thomas would not say whether or not a teacher assisted the student, whether or not the student had communicated with anyone before shooting himself, or whether or not there was more than one gunshot inside the school — something that was reported by the first callers to 911.
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The shooting was the first inside of a school in Concord since December 1985 when Louis Cartier showed up at Concord High School with a shotgun and took two students hostage. Cartier was later shot by police and died at Concord Hospital.
More information is expected either later Wednesday or Thursday.
A free, 24/7 confidential service is available that can provide people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress, or those around them, with support, information, and local resources. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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