By KATY SAVAGE
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CLAREMONT — Police are investigating a suspicious shooting in Claremont, New Hampshire after a man died in a parking lot around midnight on Sunday.
Police responded to a 911 call to the Imperial Buffet restaurant parking lot at 154 Washington Street around 12:14 a.m. on Sunday.
When police arrived, they found Jesse Jarvis, 36, suffering from gunshot wounds, according to a press release from the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office. Jarvis died at the scene, according to the press release.
Attempts to reach the owners of Imperial Buffet on Sunday weren’t successful. The restaurant is closed on Sundays.
The attorney general’s office said a number of people were inside and outside the restaurant location at the time of the shooting.
The Claremont Police Department deferred further questions to New Hampshire State Police Sgt. William Bright. Phone and email attempts to reach Bright on Sunday weren’t successful.
Jarvis had a history of run-ins with law enforcement. He was arrested at age 18 after stealing cassette tapes and other merchandise from Kmart in Claremont in 1999. He was arrested again in 2005 for assaulting two police officers.
In 2008, Jarvis’ father Anthony Jarvis was killed during a shootout with police at age 53, according to the Keene Sentinel. Police arrived to arrest Jesse Jarvis for violating probation in 2008. While they were there, police learned Anthony Jarvis, who was a felon, had a weapon. Anthony Jarvis was killed during the shootout after he refused to leave a camper on a friend’s property in Charlestown, New Hampshire, the Sentinel reported in 2008.
The Concord Monitor reported in 2013 that Jesse Jarvis was a leader of the Brotherhood of White Warriors, a white supremacist group.
Jarvis told the Monitor that the Brotherhood of White Supremacists followed ideas of white supremacist leaders before his time.
“It’s never been about hatred for other races,” Jarvis told the Monitor in a statement in 2013. “It was always about the love for one’s own race, and the self-preservation to protect that race.”
Mary Supernois, who said she lived next door to Jarvis’ brother, had known Jarvis this past year. He said he was protective of those he cared about.
“Jesse was a good person, inside and out,” said Supernois. “He would help anyone out. It’s a sad day to see this happen to him.”
New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati declined to comment on the details of Jarvis’ history.
“We are aware of what his criminal history is,” said Agati, when reached by the Eagle Times on Sunday evening.
Police had made no arrests from the shooting as of Sunday evening. Agati said police cleared the scene at the Imperial Buffet on Sunday afternoon.
“Investigations will continue throughout the night,” Agati said.
An autopsy for Jarvis was scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday with Chief Medical Examiner Jennie Duval.
Agati expected to have an update Monday afternoon.
Anyone with knowledge of the shooting was asked to call Sgt. Bright of the New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit at (603) 223-4381.
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