KEENE, NH – Investigators say a father shot and killed his son and them himself in Hinsdale Wednesday afternoon.
Police responded to the scene at the home on Plain Road shortly before 1:00 Wednesday afternoon for a reported shooting, and found David Lent, 47, and Tyler Gilbert, 12, dead of apparent gunshot wounds.
According to a news release from New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Nathan Noyes, and Hinsdale Police Chief Charles Rataj, a pistol was found next to Lent, and a witness at the scene reported that Lent shot Gilbert before shooting himself.
Autopsies conducted Thursday by Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mitchell Weinberg determined that Lent’s cause of death was a single gunshot wound and his manner of death was suicide, and Gilbert’s cause of death was gunshot wounds and his manner of death is homicide.
Gilbert, a Vermont resident, was visiting Lent and his grandparents at the time of the incident.
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident is ongoing, but police say no additional information is expected to be released at this time.
