Michael Patrick Maloney, a 48-year-old White man and long-serving Chief of the Greenland Police Department, was killed on April 12, 2012, while assisting the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Drug Task Force. He was eight days from retirement after 26 years in law enforcement when officers served a search warrant at a home on Post Road and were met with gunfire as they attempted entry.

Chief Maloney and four other officers were struck. Maloney is credited with pulling a wounded officer to safety before being fatally wounded by a gunshot to the head; the four other officers survived their injuries. The shooter, 29-year-old Cullen Mutrie, barricaded himself in the residence and was later found dead inside alongside a female companion, Brittany Tibbetts. Authorities concluded the deaths in the home were either a murder-suicide or a double suicide and determined Mutrie was the sole gunman.

The community mourned a career public servant who died in the line of duty just days before retirement. If anyone has information about the events on Post Road that night or knew Chief Maloney, contact the relevant New Hampshire authorities.