A man was shot and killed late Friday evening just outside of a remote Space Force station in New Hampshire, in an incident involving a police officer and a security contractor.
Around 11:30 p.m. local time, 33-year-old Michael Foley of Massachusetts was shot on Galaxy Way — an access road that leads to the Space Force station, according to a press release from the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.
A police officer and a “contracted security officer” were involved in Foley's death, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Attorney General's office said.
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Foley was killed at the scene by a “single gunshot wound” and the “manner of death is homicide,” New Hampshire's Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mitchell Weinberg said in a release. It's not clear which person's gun fired the fatal round.
Stephen Brady, a spokesman for Peterson-Schriever Garrison, which oversees New Boston Space Force Station, told Military.com the shooting “involved a civilian not affiliated with the installation.”
New Boston Space Force Station will conduct a “use of force review board to examine the shooting” and investigate what occurred with the contractor, Brady added.
“Base security was never compromised, the vital Space Force satellite command and control mission continued without interruption, and there is no known threat to the community,”…
