KITTERY, Maine (WHDH) – Police fatally shot a suspect during a standoff on the Piscataqua River Bridge between Maine and New Hampshire Thursday and an investigation is underway after both his wife and child were found dead, officials said.
At around 2:07 a.m., police received a 911 call from a man saying he had been in a fight with his wife at their home in Troy, N.H., Maine State Police Colonel Bill Ross said in a press conference. The man told authorities that his wife was dead.
The New Hampshire State Police responded to the home where they found the deceased woman, Ross said.
At around 2:30 a.m., officers from the Kittery Police Department in Maine found the man’s vehicle parked in the southbound lane in the middle of the Piscataqua River Bridge, according to Ross.
Authorities from both New Hampshire and Maine attempted to negotiate with the man and …