Nashua Police Make Arrest in 5-Month-Old Murder Case

• Subscribe to Nashua Patch news alerts

Nashua police announced an arrest in the murder of a Nashua man in November 2014.

Thomas Smith, 32, of Lowell, Mass., was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree murder.

Police said he beat Craig Guillemette, 46, downtown on Nov. 29, 2014 and threw him down a flight of stairs. Guillemette was later found in an apartment on Lowell Street. He was hospitalized and pronounced dead a few days later.

Before the beating, Guillemette was walking near the city’s annual Winter Holiday Stroll, police said.

Smith is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

Photo: Craig Guillemette. (Credit: Nashua police)

Previous

• Nashua Police Ask for Public’s Help in Solving 2014 Murder

---------------------

Nashua police/fire news

• Nashua Man Charged with 6 Counts of Domestic Violence
• ‘Jack the Snipper,’ Convicted of Indecent Exposure in Nashua, Charged Again
• Honduran Man Caught Living in Nashua to Be Deported Again
• Nashua Sexual Assault Suspect Indicted
• Nashua Man Injured in Everett Turnpike Crash
• Nashua Man Charged with Rape
• Nashua Man Charged with OUI
• Man to Face 4th Murder Trial in ‘88 Killings of Lesbian Couple in Nashua
• Nashua Drug Sweep Nets 8 Arrests
• Convicted Nashua Stalker Charged with Violating Restraining Order