CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire has averaged 19 murders a year for the last nearly four decades, and 2007 was right on track.
There were 19 homicides in the state in 2007, with the one particularly deadly day last summer.
On July 2 Michael Woodbury, 31, of Maine walked into a North Conway store and shot and killed the store manager and two customers. Later that day, in an unrelated incident, police found the body of Patricia Holmes, 62, in her Manchester apartment. Her boyfriend had shot her to death and then killed himself.
The year also the second police officer to be killed in the line of duty within six months. Franconia police Cpl. Bruce McKay was shot to death in May by a young man who was then killed by a passerby.
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