MANCHESTER, N.H. (WHDH) - Police have identified the three officers who were stabbed during a struggle with what authorities called a “combative” 18-year-old suspect in Manchester, New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Officers responding to a reported domestic incident on Ahern Street shortly before 3:30 p.m. engaged with Akwasi Owusu who refused to come out of a room, according to Manchester police.
When police tried to arrest Owusu, he allegedly pulled out a hidden knife and stabbed three officers — identified as four-year veteran Brendan Langton, 26; two-year-old veteran Olivia LaCroix, 26; and three-year veteran Kevin Shields, 32, who previously worked for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C.
The three officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are recovering, police said.
Owusu was arrested and is slated to be arraigned Wednesday in Hillsborough Superior Court — North on three counts of first-degree assault. He also faces a criminal mischief charge stemming from the domestic incident and second-degree assault and simple assault charges related to a separate incident.
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