Crime & Safety

WFSB: Child, Woman Found Safe, Man in Custody as Amber Alert is Lifted

WFSB Channel 3 reports that the child and mother are found safe in New Hampshire.

An Amber Alert has been lifted after a 4-month-old boy and his mother were found safe in New Hampshire, according to WFSB Channel 3.

Police today issued a multistate Amber Alert after a man, who was wanted in connection with a triple homicide stemming from a house fire caused by an arson in upstate New York, took his child's mother and the child with him in his attempt to flee police, Massachusetts police said.

Matthew Slocum, 23, is now in police custody and the woman, 25-year-old Loretta Colegrove and her child with Slocum, Raymond Slocum, are OK, according to WFSB. 

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