NH AG’s Office Releases Full Report On Nashua Shooting Incident

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has released its final report concerning its investigation into a non-fatal police shooting in Nashua in June 2018. The attorney general’s office opened its investigation into the shooting after officers were sent to a check on the welfare call on Ledge Street in the Gate City. During the call, officers encountered Justin Contreras, 29 at the time, and a confrontation ensued.

Contreras was shot and injured and med-flighted to a hospital while the NH AG’s Office opened an investigation into the incident.

Officer James Ciulla, it was later learned, shot at Contreras three times and hit him twice after Contreras pointed an unloaded revolver at him, according to a report on Patch in July 2018. In August 2018, the AG’s Office determined that the shooting was justified.

Last year, the AG’s Office stated that it would issue a full report of its investigation after Contreras’ legal proceedings were concluded. Those proceedings, Kate Spiner, the director of communications for the NH AG’s Office, concluded recently.

The 31-page full can be downloaded in .pdf format here on the NH AG’s Office website as well as photos of the Ledge Street home where the shooting took place.