Scott Edward Phillips

New Hampshire State Police — Concord, NH

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch August 19, 1997

Age 32

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

Badge 608

The Vigil Panel 144 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 9

Incident

Troopers Scott Phillips and Leslie Lord were shot and killed after Trooper Phillips had stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Route 3 and Hughes Road in Colebrook. The suspect immediately exited his vehicle and opened fire on Trooper Phillips with an automatic rifle, wounding him in the hand. Trooper Phillips was able to return fire and emptied his entire magazine but did not wound the suspect, who was wearing a bulletproof vest. Trooper Lord pulled up to the scene without knowing that shots had been fired and was shot before he exited his patrol car. The suspect then returned and shot Trooper Phillips four more times, execution-style, killing him. He then stole Trooper Phillips' patrol car and drove to the office of a local newspaper where he shot and killed a part-time judge, with whom he had a long-standing grudge and a newspaper editor who had tried to intervene. The suspect then drove into Vermont where he shot and wounded a New Hampshire Fish and Game officer who attempted to stop him. The officer's life was saved when a bullet struck his badge and ricocheted off. The suspect then stopped the patrol car and set up an ambush. Two Vermont state troopers located the patrol car and approached it with a canine unit. The canine alerted the troopers to the suspect who was in an ambush position on a nearby hill, giving the officers an opportunity to take cover as the suspect opened fire on them from the hill. Two New Hampshire state troopers and a United States Border Patrol agent were all shot and wounded in the final shootout with the suspect at that location. Upon searching the suspect's property, officials found massive caches of booby-trapped bomb materials and weapons hidden in underground tunnels. Trooper Phillips served in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Panama from 1985-1989. He joined the New Hampshire State Police in 1990.

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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Trooper Phillips gave the New Hampshire State Police 13 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of New Hampshire, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department New Hampshire State Police

Type State Police

Location Concord, NH

Platform Identity nhsp.nh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 19, 1997

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

Age 32

Badge Number 608

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Military Service

Scott Edward Phillips served in the U.S. Army (1985â1989) before joining law enforcement.

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Trooper Scott Edward Phillips is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In NH, 23 of 59 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 39% of this state's fallen. That is 39 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New Hampshire State Police, 3 of 10 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 30% of this agency's fallen.

New Hampshire State Police

of 10 officers

30% Felonious

NH — Statewide

of 59 officers

39% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious