Authorities: Man shoots mother dead in hospital, is arrested
LEBANON, N.H. — A Rhode Island man who fatally shot his mother in the intensive care unit of New Hampshire’s largest hospital, sending dozens of police officers scrambling there and briefly forcing a lockdown, has been arrested, authorities said. No one else was injured in the violence.
Authorities said Travis Frink, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was expected to be arraigned Wednesday on murder charges for the shooting at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald identified the victim as Frink’s 70-year-old mother, Pamela Ferriere, of Groton.
MacDonald said the 49-year-old Frink signed into the medical centre’s visitor centre just after 1 p.m. Tuesday and went to the intensive care unit. Soon after, Lebanon police received a call about shots fired in in the intensive care unit.