Truck Driver Charged in I-95 Crash That Killed NH Trooper

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A Connecticut truck driver has been charged in an interstate crash that claimed the lifetime of a New Hampshire state trooper final fall.

Jay Paul Medeiros, 43, of Ashford was charged earlier this month with negligent murder and reckless conduct with a lethal weapon.

Authorities mentioned he was driving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth early on Oct. 28 that struck a police cruiser occupied by Employees Sgt. Jesse Sherrill, who was working on the website of an in a single day paving challenge. Sherrill, 44, of Barrington, was pronounced useless at a hospital.

Prosecutors mentioned Medeiros handed a minimum of two “superior warning indicators” and did not decelerate regardless of flashing lights of emergency and work autos and “a yellow path arrow board.” In addition they allege in court docket paperwork that marijuana was discovered within the cab and assessments indicated marijuana ingestion by Medeiros inside three days.

It’s unclear whether or not Medeiros has an lawyer; an individual who answered the cellphone at a quantity listed in his title mentioned he couldn’t discuss and hung up.

Gov. Chris Sununu ordered flags lowered to half workers in honor of Sherill, who had been a state trooper for 19 years. Col. Nathan Noyes mentioned he “was generally known as a trooper’s trooper, a consummate, devoted skilled and a real household man.”

New Hampshire state police issued an announcement thanking the county lawyer’s workplace and Maine State Police for his or her work on the investigation and mentioned Sherrill “is missed each day by his household, mates and state police colleagues.”

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