Month: July 2026

By Jackson Stoever

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    PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire (WMUR) — One man was killed in an apparent shooting Sunday night in Peterborough, investigators said.

The Attorney General’s Office said police who were called to a disturbance at a Grove Street home found a man dead of apparent gunshot wounds. Another man inside the home appeared to have multiple stab wounds and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

“We were watching TV, and it was quiet,” said neighbor Caroline Gildea. “Then I heard ‘Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!'”

Gildea said she initially dismissed the loud bangs as fireworks, but she now believes they were gunshots.

“Then, all of a sudden, the roads are shut down, and there’s a police presence, and I’m like, wait a minute,” she said.

The crime scene remained active until the sun came up Monday morning, shaking up the small community of Peterborough.

“It definitely saddens me,” said neighbor Sat Jagat Khalsa.

Khalsa said he’s not used to seeing police lights and crime scene tape in town.

“It’s just a sad thing,” he said. “Any loss of life is a sad thing.”

Neighbors said they’re on edge as they wait for more information.

“You know, everybody’s like, ‘That won’t happen in my backyard,'” Gildea said. “Well, it literally happened in my backyard.”

Police have not released the names of the people involved. They said they believe the incident was an altercation between the two men, and there is no known threat to the public.

The condition of the man taken to the hospital has not been released.

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By Madilyn Destefano, Pattrik Perez

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    MARION COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — An 11-year-old boy is recovering at home in Pennsylvania after an alligator attack in Marion County that resulted in the amputation of his right hand, according to his family.

Brodie and his father were fishing two weekends ago at Nelson’s Fish Camp near Umatilla when the attack happened. The family was visiting from Pennsylvania.

Andrew Wright, one of Brodie’s relatives, said the two were aware of their surroundings.

“They did see alligators in the area. Nothing that was close to them at all, and nothing that was of concern to them,” Wright said.

But that quickly changed as Brodie was putting a fish back in the water that he had just reeled in.

“The gator came out of nowhere. They didn’t ever see it,” Wright said.

The alligator grabbed Brodie by the arm, and his dad jumped on it, hoping to pry its mouth open.

“When he did that, the gator did its roll, and it broke pretty much every bone in Brodie’s lower arm, severing part of his hand,” Wright said.

At the hospital, doctors had to amputate Brodie’s right hand, which Wright said is his dominant one when playing sports like baseball and football.

“Everything that he knew, doing everything with his right hand … [he] can’t do that anymore. Physically and emotionally, it’s going to be a very long road for him,” Wright said.

Despite what’s ahead, Brodie remains in good spirits, as shown by his smile in photos taken after the attack. Wright said the overwhelming support the family has received on social media has helped. A GoFundMe for Brodie and his family had already raised more than $17,000 in donations, as of Monday evening.

“It’s not going to be a short-term thing, so the more help, the better,” Wright said.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it captured and killed the nearly 9-foot alligator believed to be responsible for the attack.

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By Bob Hazen

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    VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — A Volusia County lifeguard is thanking God after surviving a lightning strike this weekend in Ormond Beach.

Damien Curry told WESH 2 he had volunteered to work on July 4th and was responding to a call about a woman who needed help getting to her car near the Seminole Avenue access point when the bolt hit nearby.

“I’ve got my hand on the side of the truck, and then all of a sudden boom! It just blows up, and I jump through the truck. I get lifted off my feet,” Curry said. “I’m shaking, I mean I’m violently shaking. I was in panic. My whole left side of my body was tingling, pins and needles. It was like a bomb went off.”

Curry said he was able to pull himself together, help the woman, and then drove down the beach warning others about the lightning.

“I’m literally on the PA with the lights on going, ‘get off the beach! I just got struck by lightning, you’re gonna die!’”

Curry said paramedics later checked him out and he went to the hospital. He says the tingling sensation subsided several hours later and he’s feeling much better now.

“It was a rough sleep with the fireworks going off. The next day the worst thing happened, the storm came in and I had a full blown panic attack yesterday,” Curry said.

Curry runs a landscaping business and is also a candidate for Ormond Beach’s mayor. He has been a part-time lifeguard for eight years but says now he’s probably going to take a break from watching over the waves for a while.

“My wife wrote on the fridge ‘no more lifeguarding’,” Curry said.

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