Richard Lorman

A judge’s decision to deny a protective order to a 33-year-old woman who was later shot and critically injured by her ex-boyfriend, “represented a reasonable application of current New Hampshire law to the facts of the case,” an internal review concluded Tuesday. A committee conducted the review of the petition denial and released a report following a request from New Hampshire...

A New Hampshire woman fighting for her life after being shot Monday night in Salem, Massachusetts, is “doing miraculously well,” her employer said Thursday. Thirty-three-year-old Lindsay Smith was shot in the head by her ex-boyfriend, 55-year-old Richard Lorman, while leaving her job at Doyle Sailmakers. Authorities have said that Lorman eventually turned the gun on himself and took his own…

New Hampshire’s judicial branch is reviewing the case at the request of the Gov. Chris Sununu, he said in a statement.