New Hampshire Man In Custody Days After Firing at Officers

Ryan Brouillard was captured Saturday morning in Concord, New Hampshire

Police in New Hampshire have captured a man accused of firing a gun at responding officers in Franklin overnight Wednesday, then fleeing and barricading himself in a residence in Manchester on Saturday.

Franklin police said officers first responded to a report of a disturbance and a man with a gun on Prospect Street in Franklin around 2:30 a.m., when Ryan Brouillard, 34, fired a shot.

No one was shot or injured in the incident.

The neighborhood was under lock down for sometime while police searched for Brouillard, but he was able to escape.

On Saturday, police said Brouillard, was taken into custody after a tense stand-off at a Manchester Street residence in Concord, New Hampshire, at about 4:30 a.m.

Authorities said Brouillard had initially barricaded himself inside the residence but then surrendered peacefully a short time later.

Brouillard is being held at the Merrimack County Jail. He has been charged with 2 counts of criminal threatening, reckless conduct, possession of a firearm, resisting arrest, parole violation, and habitual offender. Brouillard is scheduled to be arraigned on January 3, 2017, at Franklin, Circuit Court.

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