
People didn't trust Bruce McKay and they didn't like him. "Liko Kenney may have had some psychological issues, but he wasn't violent. McKenzie lives close to the Kenney family and knew Liko well. He was slumped over his steering wheel and no one came to look at him," she said. You know what really bothered me, though, no one was checking on Liko. And they had already started CPR but I came over to help out and pump his chest.

"Someone said there's been a shooting on your lawn. McKenzie was driving back from town Friday when she saw that the road to her house was blocked. In fact, the entire drama unfolded on her front lawn. And, Bill said, his nephew was never the same. After that incident, Liko was told he could request another officer if McKay ever stopped him again. Liko tried to resist arrest and was later convicted of assaulting McKay, although he said that it was McKay who had assaulted him. It's pretty clear there was a history of bad blood between Liko and McKay that people here say seems to have stemmed from an incident in 2003, when McKay tried to arrest Liko for suspected illegal drug use. This police officer had been tormenting him for three or four years. Liko was driven to a point where he snapped. … That could describe pretty much everyone around here." Kenney said his nephew was afraid of McKay. Bruce McKay in the past and that he "wasn't a big fan of authority figures but. We do things on our own."īill said that his nephew had several run-ins with Cpl.
#Family sought say. tormentor. they shot free
This is a state after all whose license-plate motto reads "Live Free or Die." Bill said, "We moved here to live off the land. The clan seemed to personify that independent, thumb-your-nose-at-authority spirit that New Hampshire is known for. Floyd is not expected to be charged with a crime. Greg Floyd, who witnessed the shooting, picked up McKay's gun and shot Kenney, after he says Kenney refused to drop his gun. That's when Kenney pulled a gun and shot the officer four times and then ran him over, according to Ayotte, who reviewed the video from McKay's dashboard camera. McKay eventually forced Kenney off the road and unloaded a can of pepper spray on Kenney and his friend, Caleb Macaulay.

But Kenney sped off with McKay in hot pursuit. No one seems to know the reason, Ayotte told reporters. McKay turned on his sirens and pulled him over. On Friday, Ayotte said, Kenney was driving home from his job at an Agway. The bare facts of the case were outlined at a news conference by New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.

Bruce McKay, that left both men dead and the town of Franconia torn apart. And skiing's bad boy Bode Miller learned his sport at Franconia's Cannon Mountain.īut now, Franconia, nestled in the middle of New Hampshire's White Mountains, will be known for something else: a double shooting involving Miller's cousin, 24-year-old Liko Kenney, and a veteran police officer, 48-year-old Cpl. Renowned poet Robert Frost penned his inspirational poems at nearby Sugar Hill. For years, Franconia sat in the shadow of one of the world's most famous rock formations, the craggy face known as the Old Man of the Mountain, until the rocks tumbled down in 2003 wiping out the old man. - The tiny town of Franconia, N.H., has an impressive history.
