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Concord, NH officers stop potential massacre
CONCORD, N.H. -- Two police officers are being credited with stopping a possible massacre.
They arrested a man who was allegedly planning to shoot people inside a bar and then kill himself.
When David McLaughlin, 24, approached the bar at the Barley House Restaurant in Concord on Monday night, patrons knew something was wrong.
Restaurant customer Audrey Little said McLaughlin seemed peculiar.
“He was really strange. He just kind of kept to himself and didn’t want to sit near anybody else at the bar,” Little said.
Unbeknownst to the restaurant patrons, he was carrying a loaded gun and intended to use it.
“The plan was to shoot as many people as he could, and then get up the nerve to shoot himself after the incident,” said Sgt. John Thomas of the Concord, NH Police Department.
Thomas said McLaughlin lost his nerve, and instead skipped out on his $18 tab and headed for Margaritas, another bar where he planned to go through with his rampage.
Fortunately, two officers stopped him a block away on Depot Street where he admitted everything.
“He was tired of life and this was a way for him to go,” Thomas said.
McLaughlin has a criminal record in other states and a history of mental illness.
He reportedly stole his grandfather’s gun in Wentworth before driving 50 miles to Concord.
McLaughlin is being held on $500,000 cash bail. He’s facing firearms and theft charges.
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO136436/
Concord, NH officers stop potential massacre
CONCORD, N.H. -- Two police officers are being credited with stopping a possible massacre.
They arrested a man who was allegedly planning to shoot people inside a bar and then kill himself.
When David McLaughlin, 24, approached the bar at the Barley House Restaurant in Concord on Monday night, patrons knew something was wrong.
Restaurant customer Audrey Little said McLaughlin seemed peculiar.
“He was really strange. He just kind of kept to himself and didn’t want to sit near anybody else at the bar,” Little said.
Unbeknownst to the restaurant patrons, he was carrying a loaded gun and intended to use it.
“The plan was to shoot as many people as he could, and then get up the nerve to shoot himself after the incident,” said Sgt. John Thomas of the Concord, NH Police Department.
Thomas said McLaughlin lost his nerve, and instead skipped out on his $18 tab and headed for Margaritas, another bar where he planned to go through with his rampage.
Fortunately, two officers stopped him a block away on Depot Street where he admitted everything.
“He was tired of life and this was a way for him to go,” Thomas said.
McLaughlin has a criminal record in other states and a history of mental illness.
He reportedly stole his grandfather’s gun in Wentworth before driving 50 miles to Concord.
McLaughlin is being held on $500,000 cash bail. He’s facing firearms and theft charges.