Crime & Safety
Manchester Man Found Guilty Of Attempted Murder, Assault Charges For Stabbing 3 Cops
Akwasi Owusu was found guilty by a jury on three counts connected to a February 2020 incident. An insanity hearing will be held Tuesday.
MANCHESTER, NH — A man from Manchester, who stabbed three police officers more than three years ago, was found guilty on charges Friday.
Akwasi Owusu, 21, was found guilty of attempted murder and two felony counts of first-degree assault. He stabbed three police officers trying to arrest him during a domestic dispute on Feb. 4, 2020, on Ahern Street.
Owusu, who was 18 then, was ordered to comply but refused and became combative. The officers did not know that he had a knife. Owusu began swinging, stabbing the officers. Two officers sustained life-threatening injuries, while the third was slashed in the forehead.
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“Officers Brendan Langton, Olivia LaCroix and Kevin Shields were able to take Owusu into custody without injuring him,” John Coughlin, the Hillsborough County Attorney, and Chief Allen Aldenberg of the Manchester Police Department said in a joint statement, “and would thereafter be instrumental to the successful prosecution of the case.”
Assistant county attorneys Jonathan Raiche and Mark Ryder of the major crimes unit prosecuted this case.
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A not guilty by reason of insanity hearing will be held on Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North.
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