Leslie George Lord

New Hampshire State Police — Concord, NH

Felonious

End of Watch August 19, 1997

Age 45

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

Badge 719

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 9

Incident

Troopers Leslie Lord and Scott Phillips 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 Lord was the chief of police in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, from 1975 to 1987. In 1987, he joined the New Hampshire Bureau of Highway Enforcement, and became a trooper in 1996 when that agency merged with the New Hampshire State Police. He had also been the

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22 years. You could have gone home.
Trooper Lord gave the New Hampshire State Police 22 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of New Hampshire. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Trooper Lord.

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

Agency

Department New Hampshire State Police

Location Concord, NH

Platform Identity nhsp.nh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 19, 1997

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

Age 45

Badge Number 719

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle; Automatic

Offender Shot and killed

Trooper Leslie George Lord is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 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 15.2 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

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

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious