By Dylan Marsh
EAGLE TIMES STAFF
CLAREMONT — Further investigation into a shooting that occurred last month on Pearl Street has been handed over to the Sullivan County Attorney’s Office. Initial investigation into the Friday, July 29, 2022, shooting initially led Claremont Police to arrest Samantha McGlynn, 33, of Claremont, with the charge of first degree assault with a firearm.
“As far as the investigation, it is beginning to wind down. At this point, the decision for who else may get charged or enhancement of charges will all be made by the county attorney’s office. Whether they send a direct indictment or an arrest warrant that decision will be made by them,” said Claremont Police Chief Brent Wilmot.
According to the affidavit filed with the Sullivan County Superior Court, Claremont Police officers were dispatched to 100 Pearl Street due to reports of a fight. Claremont Police Department dispatch had received multiple calls stating that a woman had just shot someone and was sitting nearby with a firearm in her hand. Once police arrived, they were able to locate the suspected shooter and began questioning her as to what had occurred. Before McGlynn could be read her Miranda Rights, she told one of the officers that she knew by first name, “You know what’s going on. He entered my house with a knife, so what else was I supposed to do?”
Claremont Police continued to question eyewitnesses in regards to the sequence of events that took place. Eye witness accounts reported in the police affidavit state that Kaiden Tobin, 18, arrived at 100 Pearl Street to retrieve a bike. As a result, an argument ensued in which an unnamed minor appears to have assaulted Tobin with a metal pipe. Tobin then left the apartment with McGlynn following shortly after him. The unnamed minor followed them with the pipe in hand.
Tobin can be seen in the footage throwing something toward McGlynn’s car. McGlynn also announced that she was going to “take it into her own hands” and one person reported that she announced, “I’m sick of this town. I’m ready to start shooting.”
Eye-witnesses say that Tobin then went to a group of bystanders and asked “if he was going to die.” It was at this point that, according to witnesses, the unnamed minor attacked another young woman who had driven Tobin to the 100 Pearl Street location. After the young woman was hit with the pipe, McGlynn is said to have shot her in the leg with a .22 caliber pistol. McGlynn also appears to have “cocked” the firearm after firing it and pointing in the direction of onlookers. A photograph sent over email to the Claremont Police Department confirms that at some point McGlynn did have the gun pointed in the direction of the nearby bystanders. The police were also able to locate a live .22 caliber bullet near a spent casing, suggesting that McGlynn had in fact “cocked” the gun after firing.
According to NH RSA section 651:2 anyone who commits felony assault with a firearm can be sentenced for up to twenty years in prison. McGlynn had an arraignment earlier this month but, neither representatives with the Sullivan County Superior Court nor detectives with the Claremont Police Department, could say how she had pleaded at the arraignment, only that she hadn’t pleaded guilty in court.
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