Brandon Truitt is a general assignment reporter for WBZ-TV.
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A family outing to a mall in New Hampshire turned in an instant when a child picked up a syringe that was laying in the middle of the floor.
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A New Hampshire father spoke to WBZ-TV under the condition of anonymity. He and his wife were shopping with their three children, ages 3, 5 and 6, on Sunday at the Macy’s in Salem, New Hampshire. The family was waiting near the dressing room when their middle child walked up to him with something in her hand.
“Something incredibly sinister”
“I immediately noticed it and said put that down,” the father recalled. “When she handed it to me, I immediately realized that it was a syringe that was full of brown fluid. There was just something incredibly sinister about it.”
The man said he immediately took the syringe, which appeared to have a cap on it, to an employee of the store. He said that employee notified a manager and then called police.
The syringe a child picked up inside a Macy’s in Salem, New Hampshire.
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Neither the father or his daughter showed any symptoms, but he said on the car ride home an officer from the Salem Police Department called to check in and notified the family the syringe likely contained fentanyl or heroin.
“We were just in shock of what happened,” he said. “That night I just held my child the entire night just waiting for something to happen. Asking myself as the father what did I do wrong? What could I have done differently?”
The father praised the work of the Macy’s employees who acted urgently and even called him mid-week to provide an update. The company said its employees followed the proper protocol during the incident.
“At Macy’s, the safety of our customers and colleagues is always our top priority, and all incidents that put that at risk are taken seriously. Per our policy, we are unable to provide additional information and defer further questions to the local authorities,” a Macy’s spokesperson said.
It is still unclear how the syringe got there. The Salem Police Department would not respond to WBZ-TV’s request for comment.
HAMPTON, N.H. (WHDH) – Cub Scouts recently showed their committment to cleaning up their community.
The scouts of Pack 177 were at Plaice Cove Beach in Hampton last month scouring for trash and getting it ready for the summer fun.
One scout said it’s all in a day’s work.
“Imagine you were coming just down to the beach to enjoy a holiday in the water and then you feel something at your foot and it’s a bag,” scout Logan George of Pack 177 said. “We help our community, we help our friends, we’re always kind and trustworthy and we help other people.”
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The Cub Scouts do several other cleanups each year, including along the highway and on the side of roads around Hampton.
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BOW, NH — Bow police and fire and rescue teams were sent to a crash on Sunday afternoon, not far from a previous crash earlier this month.
At 2:30 p.m., Concord Fire Alarm reported a crash involving multiple vehicles not far from the intersection of Page Road and Clinton Street. About 10 minutes later, a battalion commander told dispatch there were three vehicles involved and two patients were being evaluated. Dispatch asked if EMTs needed a retone for an engine, and the commander said, “Yeah, why don’t you send them.”
News 603 posted a video from the crash scene on Facebook, linked here.
Just before 3 p.m., EMTs cleared the scene after reporting the patients refused transport.
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The crash site was not far from a crash on May 1 that sent one driver to Concord Hospital. In July 2024, a fatal motorcycle accident, which took the life of Joseph Kasper of Weare, occured not far from the location of Sunday’s crash.
Not long after, Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to a downed tree on Merrimack Street by School Street.
The tree was knocked down after a small storm moved through the region around 2:45 p.m.
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