Authorities are investigating a shooting death that occurred outside a Dollar General store in southern New Hampshire on Thursday night.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said it responded to the scene of the suspicious death of a male that occurred after a reported shooting incident on Thursday night in the area of a Dollar General store on Wilton Road in Milford.
In an update released Friday morning, the attorney general’s office said the incident started at 8:26 p.m. when 911 dispatchers received a phone call for gunshots fired outside the Dollar General store. Responding officers discovered evidence of multiple gunshots being fired in the parking lot. They were led to the rear of the property, where they found a man dead, apparently from a gunshot wound.
A firearm was also recovered at the scene, authorities said.
An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted Friday morning by the chief medical examiner.
Investigators are asking for the public’s assistance. Anyone who was in the area of the Dollar General parking lot or saw or heard the gunshots is asked to contact the New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit at 603-223-3856 or MCU@dos.nh.gov.
“At the time that this 911 call came in, the store was still open,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Agati said. “There were customers inside, there were definitely people who were out in the parking lot. That is obviously of great concern to us, to identify exactly what happened and who else was there.”
Agati said officers were canvassing area businesses on Friday morning in search of any surveillance video that could provide clues about what might have motivated the shooting.
No further details are expected to be released until after the autopsy is complete and the man’s family members have been notified of his death.
The exact circumstances surrounding the incident remain under active investigation, the attorney general’s office said.