New HampshireDepartment of JusticeOffice of the Attorney General

News Release

For Immediate Release
June 22, 2016

Contact:
Jeffery A. Strelzin, Senior Assistant Attorney General
Chief, Homicide Unit
(603) 271-3671; jeffery.strelzin@doj.nh.gov

Jason Casey
Assistant Attorney General

Update regarding officer involved use of force incident in Peterborough, New Hampshire

New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Robert L. Quinn, and Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard announce that additional information is available regarding the officer-involved shooting incident that occurred in Peterborough, New Hampshire yesterday.

The deceased male from yesterday's shooting has been identified as Lane Lesko (age 19), of Michigan. New Hampshire's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas A. Andrew conducted an autopsy on Mr. Lesko today and determined that his cause of death was a single gunshot wound and the manner of death is homicide.

The circumstances that led to Mr. Lesko's death are still under investigation.

New Hampshire Department of Justice
1 Granite Place South | Concord, NH | 03301
Telephone: 603-271-3658