Authorities: Police gunfire did not kill 8-year-old who was found in the vehicle on an I-95 bridge

KITTERY, Maine (AP) — A man being pursued in the killing of a woman in New Hampshire was shot by police and tumbled from the Interstate 95 bridge that connects the state to Maine, officials said Thursday. An 8-year-old boy was found dead in his vehicle.

The child’s death was not associated with gunfire from three law enforcement officials who discharged their weapons after the man stepped out of his vehicle and raised a weapon after ignoring police negotiators, Col. William Ross, chief of Maine State Police, told reporters. The man tumbled from the bridge and his body was later recovered from the Piscataqua River by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Piscataqua River Bridge reopened Thursday morning after being closed for about seven hours, Maine State Police said. Traffic was backed up on both sides as drivers were diverted to two other bridges.

The episode began with the man calling police shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday to report a domestic altercation with his wife in Troy, New Hampshire, where police found a woman’s body about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away in the western part of the state, officials said.

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