State officials have identified the man who was found dead in Hillsborough during the wee hours Saturday morning, adding that an autopsy performed Sunday showed he was stabbed to death and the incident is being treated as a homicide.
The attorney general’s office said the man was Brett Wilson, who was 51 and whose last known residence was in the area of Elkins and New London.
A press release from Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said, “The police believe they have identified all the parties involved in the incident and there is no evidence to suggest that there is a threat to the general public.”
The release gave no further information. Reached by phone Sunday afternoon, Associate Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin would not expand on the circumstances surrounding Wilson’s death, declining to comment if law enforcement officials had a suspect on their radar.
Hillsborough police were called to a home at 25 Old Henniker Road shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday and found Wilson dead. The road was blocked off by police cruisers at each end and the State Police’s Major Crime Unit truck was parked in the driveway by mid-afternoon Saturday.
No further information about Wilson was available at press time, but a search online revealed that a Brett A. Wilson of Elkins had written a letter to town officials pleading for money to treat mentally ill patients.
At the time, the man wrote that his wife had been put on a waiting list for her prescription medication and had spent time at the New Hampshire State Hospital before leaving and facing a sentence at the New Hampshire State Prison.
The letter had two dates posted on it: Jan. 11, 2016, and Dec. 9, 2015.
Strelzin said he had not heard about the man’s desperate plea for help and could not confirm that the letter writer and the Brett Wilson found in Hillsborough this weekend were the same person.
Anyone with information about the Hillsborough incident or Wilson’s activities in recent days is asked to call State Police Detective Sergeant William Bright at 271-3636.