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New Hampshire gunman kills 4, dies in shootout
August 19, 1997
Web posted at: 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT)CONCORD, New Hampshire (CNN) -- A man who apparently held a long-standing grudge against a judge killed her, two state troopers and a newspaper editor Tuesday during a wild three-hour rampage through rural New Hampshire that ended when police shot him to death.
The man, identified as Carl Drega, 67, died in a gunfight at a lumber yard in North Stratford, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire state police said the shooting spree began Tuesday afternoon after Drega, after setting fire to his home, tried to rob a grocery store in the nearby hamlet of Colebrook, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
When state troopers Leslie Lord and Scott Phillips interrupted the robbery, Drega fatally shot them and stole their patrol car, police said.
He then drove to the offices of the local newspaper, the News and Sentinel, where he shot and killed Vicki Bunnell, a lawyer and part-time judge, and newspaper editor Dennis Jois, who had tried to intervene.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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