Claremont Police Officer ‘Legally Justified’ in Fatal Shooting, N.H. Attorney General Says

Claremont — A Claremont police officer was “legally justified” in using deadly force when he shot and killed a 25-year-old Claremont man last month at the victim’s Congress Street home, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said in a report released this afternoon.

The report said Cody LaFont called police several times in the early morning hours of Sept. 25, saying he was “not thinking straight” and “drunk once again.”

When Cpl. Ian Kibbe responded to the home, LaFont was holding a revolver at chest level, the report said. Kibbe “repeatedly told” LaFont to drop the gun and backed away.

Kibbe shot LaFont three times after he “strangely smiled at Corporal Kibbe, and then stepped towards the officer while moving the revolver that he held in the officer’s direction,” the report said.

Claremont Officer Involved Shooting Report by Valley News on Scribd

LaFont’s revolver was later found not to be loaded.

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Posted online Wednesday at 4:55 p.m. Find a full report in Thursday’s Valley News.