Event listings are free on one Patch site. You can share your calendar info on other community sites for a modest fee, starting at 25 cents per day. To get started, visit the Events link on the front page of all Patch sites. Statewide calendar roundups are published on most Sundays and Wednesdays. Visit any of the 227 New Hampshire Patch Event sites (patch.com/map/new-hampshire) for updated listings.
Saturday
The Craftworkers’ Guild Annual Indoor Craft Yard Sale (3a Meetinghouse Road, Bedford)
Just after 9 p.m., police were sent to the area of South Main Street near West Street for a report of a rollover crash with a person trapped inside the vehicle. A second caller also reported the crash, and dispatch said the caller sounded as if they were arguing with someone in the background, according to scanner chatter. The crash was just off the street’s intersection with West Street.
The first-arriving officer requested additional officers to shut down the southern part of the street.
TEWKSBURY, MASS. (WHDH) – The father of a 23-year-old man who was shot in a random attack at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire before the shooter turned the gun on himself spoke with 7NEWS Thursday about his son’s recovery.
On July 5, officers responded to a reported shooting in the area of 29 Ocean Boulevard at approximately 1:20 a.m. and found a 23-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds, according to a joint statement issued by Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall, and Hampton Police Department Chief Alexander J. Reno. Both were taken to a nearby hospital.
Robert Perault said his son Chase was shot three times while he was walking with his 25-year-old girlfriend at the beach.
“Bullet was lodged in his left arm, and then two in the lungs,” Perault said. “It just blows your mind that this happens. I can’t explain any other way, it’s just a random act of violence.”
Advertisement
Soon after, at the intersection of P Street and Ashworth Avenue, officers encountered the suspect, Tyshawn Cooper, 21, of Taylors, South Carolina, who pulled a handgun, raised it, and shot himself in the head as an officer fired at him, officials said. Cooper was a sailor in the United States Navy.
After an autopsy, Cooper’s cause of death was determined to be suicide.
Perault said his son and his girlfriend have both been released from the hospital but are continuing to recover from their injuries.
“The fact that he was threatening, so they say, people – to shoot somebody prior to that was kind of an indication that this was something going on,” Perault said.
He said his biggest questions are what Cooper was doing with the gun, and how he got the gun in the first place. He said he has received “not a word” from the Navy in the wake of the attack.
Advertisement
Chase graduated from Tewksbury High School, loves fishing, and now works in construction with his father. Perault said his son has only had one question on his mind since he first woke up at the hospital.
“‘Why did he shoot us?’ That was the very first thing to come out of his mouth,” Perault said.
(Copyright (c) 2026 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
Join our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox
