WOODSVILLE — State and local police are investigating a suspicious death in Haverhill with assistance from the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office, the office announced in a Monday morning news release.
Members of the Haverhill Police Department found a deceased adult male in an apartment on Nelson Street in Woodsville in “the early morning hours” on Monday, according to the news release.
The New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit and the Haverhill Police Department are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, Michael Garrity, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, said Monday.
“Obviously this all transpired early this morning, so we’re just sifting out what exactly went down,” Garrity said.
More information will be released as it becomes available, he added. He declined to comment on what led to the death’s classification as suspicious.
“It’s just a matter of (investigators) processing the scene, getting warrants,” he said.
He declined to provide additional details on the individual, but he said that the body will be sent to the Office of the Medical Examiner once the “scene (of the incident) itself is processed.”
“We have no information that there’s any threat to the general public at this time,” he said.
Efforts to reach Haverhill Police and State Police were not immediately successful on Monday morning.
According to town property records, the property where the incident occurred, 14 Nelson St., is owned by T. J. Impey Real Estate LLC. The company did not immediately return a voicemail on Monday.
Adam Mariano, who lives a few houses up the road from the crime scene on Nelson Street, said ambulances were going up and down the hill late the night before and somebody was taken out on a stretcher.
Victoria Dickenson’s house on Cherry Street abuts Nelson Street, bordered by the trees of her backyard and, as of early Monday morning, police caution tape.
She said she didn’t hear anything in the night but in the morning was met at her door by a state trooper, who had been going from house to house in the area asking questions. She said she didn’t have much information to provide.
Dickenson, her husband and their 6-year-old son have lived on Cherry Street for 10 years. She said she feels the area is safe, notwithstanding Monday’s incident.
Monday’s police presence didn’t stop her from taking her son on a walk to Dunkin Donuts.
