Video shows moments leading up to fatal Piscataqua bridge police shooting
KITTERY, Maine — New video footage, released by the Office of the Maine Attorney General, shows the moments leading up to when police shot and killed a suspect on the Piscataqua River Bridge last month.
The video was obtained by CBS 13 through a public records request.
On Aug. 29, police said they received a 911 call from Trent Weston saying he had gotten in a fight with his wife in New Hampshire and that she was dead.
New Hampshire State Police then went to the home in Troy, near Keene, New Hampshire, and found the suspect's wife, 37-year-old Brittany Weston, deceased.
At 2:30 a.m., police tracked his phone to Kittery and located Weston in the southbound lane of I-95 in the middle of the bridge, just on the Maine side. Investigators said they tried negotiating with Weston to get him to surrender, but they were unsuccessful.
In the video released by the AG, which appears to be from a traffic camera, Weston can be seen sitting on the edge of the bridge.
About eight seconds into the video, Weston can be seen raising his right arm before he's shot multiple times and then falls 135 feet into the river below.
The video has been edited to end just before Weston is shot by police.
When viewed in slow-motion, Weston appears to be holding something in his hand, but it is not clear through the footage what that item is.
In August, investigators said Weston "raised a firearm" before one Maine State Trooper and two New Hampshire State Troopers shot at him.
After Weston's body was recovered from the river by the Coast Guard, police said they discovered the body of Weston's 8-year-old son, Benson, in the back seat of his car.
"Law enforcement officers on scene located an 8-year-old child fatally shot in the back seat of the vehicle," Col. William Ross with the Maine State Police said. "The child's death is not associated with the police officer's use of deadly force."
The Office of the Maine Attorney General is still investigating the use of deadly force by the three troopers. Under state law, the AG has six months to determine if the shooting was justified or not, which means a final report should be released by March 1, 2025.
