{"id":692893,"date":"2026-06-09T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:13:08","slug":"thornton-pd-brother-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692893\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton PD: Brother arrested in fatal shooting of sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe brother of the 21-year-old Plymouth State University student found dead in a Thornton home Monday has been arrested, according to police. Logan Anderson, 18, is charged with one count of second-degree murder in the death of his sister, Leah Anderson. Police were called to a home on Mad River Road just before 9 a.m. Monday. The Attorney General’s Office said officers found Leah Anderson suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died. People who live in the area said they didn’t hear or see anything out of the ordinary or notice anything unusual until police began arriving. >> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go <<“They had the roadblock, and that was about 9:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m.,” said neighbor Bob Imonti. “You almost never hear sirens here. It’s very quiet. You come out at night, and it’s dead silent. It’s nice. So, yeah. When I heard the sirens this morning, I knew something was up. It’s not usual,” said neighbor Karl Bewersdorf. Bewersdorf described the Andersons as nice people. “I’ve dealt with them before,” he said. “They’re very nice people, a nice family.” The Attorney General’s Office said Leah Anderson was majoring in elementary education and youth development at Plymouth State University. Logan Anderson is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. An autopsy is also scheduled. Officials said the investigation is ongoing.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The brother of the 21-year-old Plymouth State University student found dead in a Thornton home Monday has been arrested, according to police. <\/p>\n

Logan Anderson, 18, is charged with one count of second-degree murder in the death of his sister, Leah Anderson. <\/p>\n

Police were called to a home on Mad River Road just before 9 a.m. Monday. <\/p>\n

The Attorney General’s Office said officers found Leah Anderson suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died. <\/p>\n

People who live in the area said they didn’t hear or see anything out of the ordinary or notice anything unusual until police began arriving. <\/p>\n

>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> <<<\/p>\n

“They had the roadblock, and that was about 9:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m.,” said neighbor Bob Imonti. <\/p>\n

“You almost never hear sirens here. It’s very quiet. You come out at night, and it’s dead silent. It’s nice. So, yeah. When I heard the sirens this morning, I knew something was up. It’s not usual,” said neighbor Karl Bewersdorf. <\/p>\n

Bewersdorf described the Andersons as nice people. <\/p>\n

“I’ve dealt with them before,” he said. “They’re very nice people, a nice family.” <\/p>\n

The Attorney General’s Office said Leah Anderson was majoring in elementary education and youth development at Plymouth State University. <\/p>\n

Logan Anderson is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. An autopsy is also scheduled. <\/p>\n

Officials said the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brother of the 21-year-old Plymouth State University student found dead in a Thornton home Monday has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62657,11551,62650,16676,4,450,25397,3071,8609,11843,451,2976,6270,300498,300499,300497,2804,3,15622,16178,15195,300500,1583,118346,2079,16181,11363,151095,300501,452,453],"class_list":["post-692893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-a-m-monday","tag-arrest","tag-attorney-generals-office","tag-attorney-general","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-brother","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-investigation","tag-leah-anderson","tag-logan-anderson","tag-mad-river-road","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-nh","tag-office","tag-officer","tag-plymouth-state-university","tag-police","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-shooting","tag-sister","tag-student","tag-thornton","tag-thornton-pd","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}