News Release
For Immediate Release
August 28, 2018
Contact:
Peter Hinckley, Senior Assistant Attorney General
(603) 271-1209 (office), (603) 657-4904 (cell)
peter.hinckley@doj.nh.gov
Erin Fitzgerald, Attorney
Disclosure of the Officers' Names from the August 20, 2018, Officer-Involved Shooting in Rochester, New Hampshire
Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, New Hampshire Police Colonel Christopher J. Wagner, and Rochester Police Chief Paul Toussaint announce the names of the law enforcement officers involved in the shooting incident on August 20, 2018, in Rochester, New Hampshire that resulted in the death of Douglas Heath (age 38).
The officers who discharged their firearms during the incident were New Hampshire State Police Troopers Haden Wilber and Nathaniel Goodwin, and Detective Geoff Moore and Officer Michael Lambert of the Rochester Police Department.
The exact circumstances surrounding this incident remain actively under investigation. A report regarding whether the use of force was justified will be released once the investigation is completed.