Police kill man on Piscataqua River Bridge between New Hampshire and Maine, child and woman found dead

PORTSMOUTH, NH – The Piscataqua River Bridge, which connects New Hampshire and Maine, was closed for more than six hours Thursday after police shot and killed a wanted man and subsequently found a dead child in his car.

A press conference will be held at 2 p.m. at the Kittery, Maine police station. You can follow it live on CBS News Boston.

According to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, the unidentified man killed a woman in a home on Monadnock Street in Troy overnight and then drove nearly 100 miles to the bridge on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth, which is on the state line with Kittery, Maine.

Formella's office said police “attacked” the man on the bridge and shot at him.

8-year-old killed

“Police on the bridge also found an 8-year-old child who had been shot in the adult man's vehicle. The exact circumstances of this incident remain under investigation,” the Attorney General's Office said in a statement on Thursday morning.

The Maine Attorney General's Office is also investigating the shooting on the bridge.

Piscataqua River Bridge closed

“There is currently no danger to the population,” Formella’s office said.

The bridge was completely closed around 3 a.m. New Hampshire State Police said it was reopened to traffic around 9:30 a.m.

During the bridge closure, traffic was diverted to the other two bridges in the area for more than six hours.

No further information is available at this stage of the investigation.