A Goffstown school teacher died of a single gunshot wound in her home on Barnard Hill Road in Dunbarton, according to the state attorney general’s office.
Wendy Tefft, 38, was found dead Thursday morning in the single-family home at 35 Barnard Hill Road, authorities said. Her death is considered suspicious, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin.
The state medical examiner performed an autopsy Friday.
Strelzin declined to comment Friday night on the circumstances surrounding her death, including where she was shot.
Tefft is a mother. She owned the Barnard Hill Road home with her husband, Christian Tefft, according to town property records.
As of Friday night, police had not made an arrest. Strelzin said the public is not in any danger.
Wendy Tefft was employed as a kindergarten and preschool teacher at Glen Lake School in Goffstown, according to the SAU19 website.
School district Superintendent Brian Balke could not be reached for comment Friday. His office said, “We do understand there is an investigation by the attorney general’s office, and we have no further details at this time.”
The Teffts have an established history in the small town, which is about 10 miles southwest of Concord.
They were recognized at the Dunbarton Town Meeting in March 2004 as newlyweds and sworn in as that year’s Hog Reeves. The responsibility of the Hog Reeve, a town tradition, is to round up any hogs who escape late at night. Newlyweds are chosen because they are thought to be the citizens most likely to be awake late at night.
The wooden-framed home owned by the Teffts is somewhat secluded from other Barnard Hill Road residences and accessed by way of a long dirt driveway. On Friday morning, the tree-lined back road in Dunbarton was quiet.
At roughly 10 a.m. the New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit truck arrived at the residence. Two Dunbarton police cruisers sat blocking the dirt driveway leading to the Tefft’s home. Several media outlets waited nearby.
No crime scene tape – or anything to indicate violence – was visible to passerby.
A next-door neighbor, who declined to talk on-the-record, teared up when a reporter asked her what had taken place.
(Staff writer Elodie Reed contributed to this report. Alyssa Dandrea can be reached at 369-3319, adandrea@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @_ADandrea.)