Brian Roberge, the main culprit of the killing at Walmart was charged with second-degree murder (Photo: Fosters Daily Democrat)
In a report published by AP News, authorities said on Saturday that a 52-year-old New Hampshire man has been detained in connection with the beating death of a 79-year-old man in the parking lot of a Walmart in southeast New Hampshire.
After responding to a report on the late-Friday killing at Walmart, Somersworth police claimed they had detained a local guy named Brian Roberge.
They discovered Center Ossipee resident Jan VanTassel there, unconscious and suffering from facial and head injuries, and a victim of killing at Walmart.
He was dead, according to the first responders.
According to the police, Roberge repeatedly struck VanTassel in the head and face before killing him.
Second-degree murder is the accusation against Roberge in line with the case of killing at Walmart. He has a Monday court date.
On Saturday, it wasn’t immediately clear if Roberge had a lawyer.
An update from the killing at Walmart
According to a report published by Fosters Daily Democrat, in an autopsy conducted on Sunday, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mitchell Weinberg found evidence that was “consistent with eyewitness accounts that Mr. Roberge was straddling Mr. VanTassel’s chest for several minutes while hitting him in the head and face,” the New Hampshire attorney general’s office stated in a press release.
The autopsy revealed that homicide was the cause of death, according to the authorities in line with the killing at Walmart.
According to the authorities, cops arrived at Walmart at 11:19 p.m. In response to a report of one man hitting another man, on Friday.
VanTassel, victim of killing at Walmart, was discovered by police unconscious and with obvious head and face injuries.
If Roberge and VanTassel were romantically involved before the killing at Walmart, the authorities did not immediately confirm this.
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