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N.H. man gets minimum of 45 years in prison for 2022 hatchet murder and shooting
Robert Gagnon, 47, killed one man in Lyndeborough and shot another in Brookline.
A man has been sentenced to 30 years to life for killing one man and 15 to 40 years for injuring another in southern New Hampshire in November 2022.
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The charges are related to two incidents that took place on Nov. 23, 2022, the day before Thanksgiving: the shooting of Carlos Quintong, 44, in Brookline, N.H. around 6:30 a.m. and the murder of Robert Prest, 83, in Lyndeborough, N.H. — 16 miles away — three hours later.
The man, Robert Gagnon, 47, was convicted of second-degree murder, attempted murder, and three counts of felony theft by taking, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced in a release Monday after the sentencing.
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On the second-degree murder conviction, for bludgeoning Prest to death with a hatchet, Gagnon was sentenced to 30 years to life. He received 15 to 40 years for the attempted murder conviction for shooting Quintong, with an opportunity to reduce the minimum term by five years by completing anger management counseling and avoiding other criminal charges.
“The attempted murder sentence runs consecutive to his second-degree murder sentence, functionally making the cumulative, minimum term of both sentences 45 years,” Formella said in the release.
Gagnon was also sentenced to three-and-a-half to seven years on each of three theft charges. Officials reported he stole a gun and a BMW from Prest, as well as a Jeep from a Peterborough resident as he fled each scene. Those sentences are suspended 10 years from his release on the other sentences.
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