HAVERHILL — Police have identified the victim of a suspicious death that took place early Monday morning in Woodsville as a 22-year-old Springfield, Mass., man.
They also have arrested a 21-year-old Hartford, Conn., man on burglary charges related to the “shooting” incident, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
Jayden McClanahan was held in preventative detention and scheduled to appear in court in Haverhill on Tuesday afternoon.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was scheduled to conduct an autopsy of the body of the victim, Demetrius White, on Tuesday.
Authorities received a call about an incident at 14 Nelson St. in Woodsville, a village in Haverhill, at about 1 a.m. on Monday morning.
Police discovered White’s body inside the apartment building. Officials have described his death as suspicious.
Police are trying to identify everyone who was inside a Woodsville apartment at the time of the incident, Assistant Attorney General Bethany Durand told members of the media in a brief news conference Monday evening at Haverhill Town Hall.
A “large number of people” ran out of the building following the incident, Durand said.
“We really need to forward the investigation and there are people who knew what happened and we just really need to identify them and hear what they saw,” she said.
Durand did reveal that a “shooting” occurred and that aside from White, “other individuals have sought medical care.”
She declined to comment on the number of individuals or the nature of their injuries.
“We’re still in the very early stages,” Durand said about the investigation being conducted by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the New Hampshire State Police Major Crimes Unit and the Haverhill Police Department.
She urged anybody with any information regarding the incident to call the New Hampshire State Police tip line at 603-MCU-TIPS (603-628-8477).
