Coach says she was one of a kind. Such a great kid. There are 26 girls on our soccer team and two coaches and shes just beloved by everybody, smiling all the time, hard working, fun to be around, team oriented, just a wonderful kid. We are devastated. Reporter administrators say students are returning from the Holiday Weekend tonight and tomorrow. Its a small school of only a few hundred students and tomorrow to talk about what happened and to remember janey. Adam sexton, wmur news 9. Josh we know the name of the driver that was killed while allegedly speeding a way from police, investigators say an officer in stoddard first tried to pull over 59yearold kevin morong, who sped off on route 9, racing through his where and into then henniker before being thrown from his car in a crash involving three other vehicles. Reached speeds of more than 100 Miles Per Hour and camed to stop for police on two occasions. It started started in stoddard t night when a state trooper saw a blue toyota rav
At the rate of speed that he was for so long. There was no pursuit going on initially as to his high speed, he didnt yesterday to my blue lights at all. Reporter the other individuals who were struck by the s. U. V. Are very lucky they werent more seriously hurt. Im andy hershberger, wmur news 9. Josh thanks. New details about a private School Student here in New Hampshire who was one of five teenagers killed in a crash in vermont. Investigators are now considering murder charges against a man behind the wheel of the truck they say caused the crash. Adam sexton is live with the story. Reporter one of the teens killed in this horrific crash attended Kimball Union academy in meredith. 15yearold janey cozy was a sophomore at the private boarding school, administrators say she had gone home for the long holiday weekend. Investigators say she was out friends and they were all in a car headed southbound on 89 that was struck by a wrong way driver. Jamie janeys soccer coach says her loss is a
Might have come in contact with illegal drugs, including fentanyl. Good afternoon. Im adam sexton. The boys stepfather was arraigned this morning on multiple charges, including endangering the welfare of a child, drug possession, and falsifying evidence. Wmurs Jennifer Crompton with what we are learning about this tragic case. Jennifer it happened last wednesday morning in a Hampton Motel room. A 30yearold man finds his 19month old stepson unresponsive, takes him across the et police have charged leo witham with 2 felonies and a misdemeanor. They say they found an open package of fentanyl in the motel room, as well as a bottle of prescription lorazapam that they also charge witham with intentionally hiding under a childs blanket on the bed. Police are waiting for toxicology results to see how the child died, and more charges could be filed. The investigation is ongoing usually when these cases have been and there is an unintended death, we try to go back 24 hours in the persons history
Understanding. So its still preliminary, we need to come up with why the individual was there. We dont know if it was natural causes, accidental causes or something suspicious. Reporter Northwest Elementary School is right down the road from here. But chief will are says the that school has no connection to this incident. Anyone with information is asked to call Manchester Police. Wmur news 9. Josh tonight a hampton man behind bars as Police Investigation whether the fen that fill they found in his motel room played aa role in his stepsons death. That man took the toddler to the Fire Department because he was unresponsive. Jennifer crompton has more. Reporter police say they found the powerful opioid fentanyl out in the open in a motel room behind me where the man lived with his wife and two small sons. They also found a bottle of 30yearold leo with witham faces child endangerment and drug charges, Police Believe he had been alone with with the toddler when the boy died. They say the 1
Wmurs Jennifer Crompton live in hampton where police are saying those charges could be upgraded. Reporter it was in a motel room behind me that police say they found a panel of fentanyl, open and accessible, the same room where a young child was found unresponsive hours earlier. Tonight what happened in that room and how that child died are still not clear. 30yearold leo witham faces misdemeanor child endangerment charge as well as drug possession and falsifying evidence felony charges, all in connection with the death of his 19monthold stepson. This after police say he left the powerful opioid fentanyl open and accessible to the child. The case unfolding last wednesday morning, when police say witham brought the boy to the Hampton Fire Department after 11 00. He was very distraught, obviously, the child was unresponsive and trying to make trying to help contact his wife. Reporter it was later confirmed that the boy had died. Police say when they searched the nearby motel room where wi