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Police detain person of interest
The Vermont State Police is investigating a suspicious death in southern Vermont. The Bennington Police Department is providing assistance.
The investigation began at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, when Bennington police were notified that a woman had been dropped off at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington with a significant injuries including head injury believed to be a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Bennington officers secured the hospital, determined that no shooting had occurred on site, and detained a person of interest. The local agency learned the woman had been injured outside their community and turned over the case to the Vermont State Police.
VSP’s initial investigation established the woman was harmed at a home on Vermont Route 11 near Thompsonburg Road in the Windham County town of Londonderry. Troopers have responded to the scene, secured the location and are processing it for evidence. Route 11 was closed for a time during the initial response but has since reopened.
This investigation is in its early stages and involves members of the Vermont State Police Major Crime Unit, Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Crime Scene Search Team, Field Force Division and Victim Services Unit.
The victim’s body will be brought to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death. The autopsy is expected to occur this weekend. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of relatives and further investigation. No information is currently available regarding the individual who has been detained.
Anyone with information that could assist investigators in this case should call the Vermont State Police in Westminster at 802-722-4600 or submit an anonymous tip online at https://vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.
A statement from the Bennington Police Department is available at this link. The state police is unable to release additional details at this time. VSP will provide updates as the investigation proceeds.
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Hey now shootings in DC for a week, and look at Vermont. Time for some change.
What has happened to the once peaceful state of Vermont ?
It’s been invaded!
Drugs, government handouts, liberal judges and no police. That would be my guess.
Londonderry now….. of all places. Great job Vermont!!! I hope this seals your casket in terms of the tourism that you so bend over backward for.
Remember all: spread the word EVERYWHERE so all tourists are aware that VT is cutting back on properly treating roadways during the winter weather because creating safe road conditions is “bad” for the “environment”. Sue. Sue. Sue. The primary obligation of the government at any level is public safety.
I told ya, Vermont…..you made my life go south with your policies? YOUR turn! Enjoy!!!
You nailed it right on the head!
It drove us South too !
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, most cars were rear wheel drive, snow tires were no where near as good as they are today. Salt was used sparingly, usually only for actual icing situations, sand with a smaller amount of salt was more commonly used. Fast forward to today, cars are almost entirely front wheel or all wheel drive, snow tires are superior to those of yesteryear and VT has a defacto (but unofficial) bare roads policy. I’m not made of money, I can’t afford to buy a new car every few years and I don’t want my car rotting out in ten years or less. I could probably buy a new car every three years with what property taxes cost me, but let’s not go there. When I first moved to the town I now live in, they generally plowed early enough for me to get out to work on time with a little sand for good measure. Now every time a few snowflakes are fluttering around the trucks are out dumping salt like it’s the end of the world. It’s not about the environment for me, it’s about my expensive investment going to hell in a hand basket. As for the environment though, remember how warring factions in ancient times would salt the earth of their vanquished opponents to prevent crops from growing? So, yeah… it is bad for the environment, let’s go back to sand. More sand gets washed into our rivers every time it rains hard than from sanding the roads in winter.