(21 Sep 2025)
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Nashua, New Hampshire – 20 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of police at scene
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Bartelson, shooting witness from Pepperell, Massachusetts:
"Getting together for a dance for the bride and groom, and then all chaos went off. We heard about six shots and everybody ducked for cover and next thing we know, we’re rushed into safe spots and stuff like that. A lot of carnage, it seems like, you know, as far as what was going on. People were, they were, they were panicking."
3. Various of emergency services at scene
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Bartelson, shooting witness from Pepperell, Massachusetts:
"We didn’t know, we thought it was balloons maybe popped because we’re at a wedding. But we didn’t see anybody, you know, we didn’t see any balloons. Next thing we know, we’re looking for family members to make sure they’re safe, you know, do the old active shooting stuff, drop and get out of the way."
5. Wide of emergency services at scene
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Evie O’Rourke, shooting witness from Salem, New Hampshire:
"We’re trying to find our son. They don’t know where he is. The hospitals aren’t telling us. The Red Cross can’t tell us. Now they’re sending us to the police station. We’ve been here for a couple of hours and we don’t know where he is, and he went down. My daughter-in-law and granddaughter escaped and they saw my son go down. And we don’t know where he is."
7. Wide of police car driving
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Ernst, shooting witness:
"We saw a gunman. He was in all black, he was tall, he was thin, he had a semi-auto weapon. We saw him through the fireplace. I barely saw anything. He had a mask on. We just saw him raise the gun and then we ran."
(Reporter: did he say anything?)
"I didn’t hear him say anything. Lots of people have said he said different things, but I’m not going to say anything because I didn’t hear anything."
(Reporter: And when you, after you heard the shots?)
"I did."
(Reporter: And what happened after that?)
"I ran through the kitchen for my life."
9. Wide of people reuniting at unification site
STORYLINE:
Witnesses recounted a deadly shooting at a New Hampshire country club on Saturday night as an investigation into the incdent continued.
The person who died at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua was an adult male, according to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke.
Authorities said the suspect, who was detained at the scene, was also an adult male, and earlier reports of two shooters were mistaken. Police said there was no further danger to the public.
Investigators were still working to determine a motive, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said.
Tom Bartelson of Pepperell, Massachusetts, who was at the country club, described a chaotic scene that unfolded near his nephew’s wedding.
“We heard about six shots and everybody ducked for cover … people were panicking,” he said, recalling how attendees immediately looked for their loved ones.
Another person who was at the scene, Evie O’Rourke of Salem, New Hampshire, said she was still trying to find her son, Robert Decesare of Nashua, in the aftermath of the shooting.
“We don’t know where he is. He went down. My daughter in law and granddaughter escaped … They saw my son go down and they saw blood, and we can’t find him,” she said.
Emily Ernst, who was at the scene, said she saw a gunman in all black.
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