Henniker
Molly Hawthorn-MacDougall's relatives yesterday poured out their grief, anger and, for some, forgiveness as a judge sentenced Roody Fleuraguste to 42½ years to life in prison for murdering the 31-year-old woman in her Henniker home two years ago. "There are times when . . . the rage just wells up so,…
March 20, 2012
Henniker
A Haitian man is facing decades in prison and possible deportation after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 2010 shooting of NHTI nursing student Molly Hawthorn-MacDougall in her Henniker home. Roody Fleuraguste, 23, entered the plea in Merrimack County Superior Court yesterday afternoon in front of Judge…
March 3, 2012
This just in
Roody Fleuraguste, a 23-year-old native of Haiti, pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder in the shooting of 31-year-old Molly Hawthorn-MacDougall in her Henniker home. Fleuraguste appeared this afternoon in Merrimack County Superior Court, where he entered a guilty plea to a single count of second-degree murder.…
March 2, 2012
House Speaker William O'Brien offered new language yesterday for his bill to expand the death penalty to include murders committed during a home invasion. O'Brien said the new wording addresses concerns raised by the state Department of Justice that the original legislation did not clearly define home invasions. O'Brien introduced the bill in response to the murder of…
May 19, 2011
Concord
The family of Molly Hawthorn-MacDougall is putting on a picnic to raise money for a scholarship in her name, a year after the NHTI nursing student was shot to death in her Henniker home. "A May Day for Molly" is scheduled for May 15 from noon to 4 p.m. at the field behind Little Hall on NHTI's Concord campus, with a barbecue, live music, dancing and wiffle ball on…
April 29, 2011
Henniker
On April 25, 2010, Molly Hawthorn-MacDougall went fishing with Roody Fleuraguste. Four days later, according to police documents, he shot her to death in her Henniker home. In between, the 31-year-old nursing student told her husband and a friend that Fleuraguste, then 22, had seemed to express romantic interest in…
April 21, 2011