Concord Police Department Offers Updates On Recent Cases: Follow-Ups

CONCORD, NH — Here are some recent updates to cases in Concord.

Concord police were sent to William Healy Memorial Park, near the Exit 13 onramp of Interstate 93 on Saturday, around 2:45 p.m., to investigate a BB gun shooting. Witnesses reported seeing a man, covered in blood, down in the street.

The man was rushed to Concord Hospital with a chest wound.

Deputy Chief John Thomas of the Concord Police Department said officials were not commenting on the incident, at this time. When asked why police were at the scene for two days, including having bloodhounds brought in Sunday morning, he said it was to process the scene.

Officers kept the park partially closed to the public while collecting evidence.

Patch has learned the victim in the case, a homeless man, was in serious condition at Concord Hospital. The victim was struck with a single BB — a metal pellet with a sharpened point that looked like a bullet, which entered his lung and caused major damage, even though it was a BB.

Airport Road Investigation

Three times during the past week, Concord police have been sent to 58 Airport Road.

The first time, on March 12, around 11:30 a.m., a property manager reported a broken windowpane and a burglary possibly in progress. Merrimack County Sheriff’s deputies assisted, and police also learned a woman with red hair had fled the area on a scooter but could not find her. After checking the building, police cleared.

Around 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, detectives returned with a search warrant, and one noted the scooter was back home. Police were at the home for several hours.

Thomas said the department was offering no comment because it, too, was an open investigation.

Patch has learned, however, that Angela Spataro, 32, a former resident at the home who was evicted after it was sold due to foreclosure to a house flipper, was arrested on a criminal trespass charge. Also arrested was Jay M. Pease, 36, of Concord, also for criminal trespass.

Around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, police were requested back to the scene, after the property manager reported a former resident inside the house as well as another person tapping into electricity in the house for their camper. Spataro was arrested again for criminal trespass.

Neither Pease nor Spataro are strangers to the police.

During the past seven years, she has been arrested on endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated driving while intoxicated, DWI, operating without a valid license, and false fire alarm charges, and warrants.

Pease has an active felony habitual offender charge out of Holderness from February 2022 and an active felony habitual offender charge out of Concord from August 2023.

Pease is a felon due to a habitual offender conviction in February 2023. He also pleaded guilty to habitual offender charges in Belmont and Meredith in June 2023. Pease has also been arrested on possession of drugs, manufacture of controlled drugs, stalking, breach of bail, domestic violence, transport drugs in a motor vehicle, assault, and driving after revocation or suspension charges, and warrants.

Fatal Fisherville Road Crash

The man who was killed during a motor vehicle accident last month on Fisherville Road has been identified.

Timothy Hoyt, 67, of Concord was struck and killed on Feb. 21 at just before 6 a.m. The road was closed for several hours during the investigation.

No other information was available about Hoyt.

Teacher Found Dead Inside Condo

A woman who was found dead inside her condominium on Fisherville Road last month has also been identified. last month.

Heidy Voigt, 57, was discovered inside her apartment after her employer, the Winnisquam Regional School District, requested a welfare check at her home when she did not show up for work. She died of natural causes.

Originally from Bedford, Massachusetts, she taught social studies at Winnisquam Regional High School for three decades. Voigt was named Teacher of the Year in 2013.

A memorial scholarship fund for Winnisquam students has been created in her honor. Donations can be mailed to the school or on GoFundMe.com, linked here.

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