BEDFORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire man is being held without bail after a local police officer was shot with his own service weapon during a struggle with the suspect over the weekend.
Jared Masseur, 40, of Nashua, faced Judge Mark Derby via teleconference from Hillsborough County House of Corrections during a hearing in Merrimack District Court on Monday.
Masseur is charged with resisting arrest or detention, felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, attempting to take a firearm from a law enforcement officer, and second-degree assault. Derby ordered Masseur held without bail pending a probable cause hearing on Jan. 16.
Bedford Police Officer David Benway-Fongemie, 24, was shot during a struggle with Masseur early Saturday, authorities said.
Benway-Fongemie was shot and injured while officers were responding to a call around 12:53 a.m. Saturday about a suspicious person at Country Inn & Suites at 250 South River Road.
When officers arrived, Masseur began to run away from them. Officers tried to take Masseur into custody, but he resisted and began to fight the officers.
During a struggle with two officers, Masseur reached for Benway-Fongemie’s holster and tried to take his service firearm.
The officer’s gun fired off during the struggle and shot Benway-Fongemie in the leg.
Benway-Fongemie, who has worked for the department since September, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. He was later released and continues to recover at home.
The shooting is the latest case of an officer on duty being shot after a suspect grabs their service weapon.
In July, a Massachusetts man, Emmanuel Lopes, was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting Weymouth Police Department Sgt. Michael Chesna, 42, and innocent bystander Vera Adams, 77, with Chesna’s service weapon in July 2018. A jury convicted Lopes of the two murders in February.
While fleeing the scene of a minor car crash on July 15, 2018, Lopes threw a large rock at Chesna, the responding officer, knocking him to the ground unconscious, then grabbed the police officer’s gun and fatally shot him multiple times, investigators said at the time. He also fatally shot Adams, a nearby resident who was on her porch.
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