New Hampshire
2 indicted in NH after body of woman who overdosed was dumped in Mass.
Two people arrested after the body of a New Hampshire woman who overdosed was dumped in Massachusetts have been indicted, authorities said Wednesday.
Justina Steffy, 31, was reported missing by police in Keene, New Hampshire, in October. Later that month, investigators confirmed that human remains discovered in Warwick, Massachusetts, were identified as Steffy.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said investigators had learned Steffy died inside a Keene home on Oct. 13 after a fatal drug overdose. After her body was found Oct. 23 in Warwick, an autopsy was conducted and her death was ruled a homicide caused by the combined toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP and xylazine.
In February, authorities announced 42-year-old Andrea Martin and 32-year-old Christian Torruellas had been arrested.
Martin was charged with dispensing a controlled drug with death resulting after prosecutors alleged that she and another person provided Steffy with a controlled drug containing fentanyl, and she died as a result of the injection or ingestion of that drug. She is also charged with a count of falsifying physical evidence for removing Steffy’s body from Keene and disposing of it in Warwick.
Martin and Torruellas are also charged with kidnapping, with prosecutors alleging they confined a woman under their control from about Oct. 1-17 “with a purpose to terrorize that person and/or others.” Martin is also charged with another kidnapping count, alleging that from Oct. 10-13 she acted in concert with another person to confine Steffy under her control.
Martin and Torruellas were each also charged with a count of “trafficking in persons” for allegedly knowingly compelling an adult victim other than Steffy, to perform a service or labor against their will “by causing or threatening to cause serious harm to that person, confining them unlawfully by means of actual and threatened use of force, threatening to commit crimes against that person, facilitating or controlling their access to an addictive controlled substance, and/or engaging in a scheme, plan, or pattern (overt or subtle) intended to cause the person to believe that if such labor or services were not performed they would suffer serious physical harm or physical restraint.”
A Cheshire County grand jury returned indictments for the charges against Martin and Torruellas, the office of Attorney General John Formella said.
Both suspects are due to be arraigned at Cheshire County Superior Court on June 12. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.
New Hampshire
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The suspected gunman in a shooting in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in the hours after July 4 was an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy, officials said Monday.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office had previously identified the man who shot a man and woman, then himself, early Sunday morning as 21-year-old Tyshawn Cooper. Cooper died by suicide in a confrontation with police.
Cooper worked on the USS Hampton as an information systems technician (submarines), second class, according to an update from prosecutors and state and local police on Monday. He was living in New Hampshire for the military assignment — the submarine has been at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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Cooper was not on duty at the time of the shooting, a spokesman for the Navy told NBC10 Boston Monday.
“We are deeply saddened by this event and extend our heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families. The Navy is cooperating fully with the New Hampshire State Police, who are leading the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting,” the statement said.
The USS Hampton, an attack submarine, is named for four cities with the name Hampton, including New Hampshire’s.
The man, 23, and woman, 25, remained hospitalized on Monday, officials said.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service was reviewing the incident along with state police and prosecutors, according to officials’ update.
Officials haven’t yet said what’s suspected to have led to the shooting, first reported on Ocean Boulevard about 1:19 a.m. Sunday. Officers then encountered Cooper near P Street and Ashworth Avenue, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. During that interaction, the suspect pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the head. At the same time, an officer fired their weapon.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death was a gunshot wound of head and that the manner of his death was suicide.
Though the officer’s shot was not the cause of death, the Attorney General’s Office will conduct a use of force investigation.
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