ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A police officer fired his gun while trying to arrest a Massachusetts man after a 40-mile car chase, striking the man at least twice, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.
Richard Fowler, 29, of Bradford, Mass., was in the intensive care unit at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. Blood was on the driver’s seat of the car, which was crammed between two police cruisers on South Main Street. Police had blocked off the street.
Simon Brown, senior assistant attorney general, said the chase started on Tuesday night in Amesbury, Mass., when police there attempted to pull the driver over for a motor vehicle violation. The driver refused to stop and headed into New Hampshire, Brown said in a news release.
Officers from the towns of Lee and Barrington attempted, without success, to stop the car. The pursuit continued into Rochester, where police put down road spikes that flattened the car’s tires.
As a police officer from Barrington tried to arrest the driver, “he discharged his weapon, striking the driver at least twice,” Brown said.
The officer’s name was not released.
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