Oct 5, 2009 8:34 pm US/Eastern
Mother Murdered, Young Daughter Wounded In Attack
MONT VERNON, N.H. (WBZ) ―
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Police cars outside the Mont Vernon, N.H., home where a mother was murdered and her 11-year-old daughter was found with her throat slashed.
WBZ
Police are looking for two men wanted in connection with the murder of a mother and a brutal attack on her young daughter in New Hampshire.
Officers were called to a home on Trow Road in Mont Vernon early Sunday morning. Inside they found a woman dead.
Authorities identified her as 42-year-old Kimberly Cates.
Neighbors told the
New Hampshire Union Leader she was a nurse who worked part-time at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua and Milford Medical Center.
Investigators would not say how she died.
Cates lived in the home with her husband, David, and their 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie.
A neighbor told the paper the girl was found outside the house with a head injury, her throat cut and a broken leg.
She was rushed to Children's Hospital in Boston, where she spent six hours in surgery Sunday.
Her father, a military contractor, was in Maryland on a business trip. He returned Sunday to be with his daughter at the hospital.
John Quinlan, chairman of the Mont Vernon Board of Selectmen, said she was in stable condition.
"Serious crime, particularly murder," Quinlan said, "is something that doesn't happen here, something you always see on television happening somewhere else.
"I know that's an old thing to say about small-town America, buit it really is true."
Neighbors are stunned.
"I'm just overwhelmed with grief, sadness," Yuki Shorney told WBZ's Ken MacLeod. "I'm scared. I don't understand any of it. I don't understand why."
At Jaimie's school, scheduled state testing was postponed. Her sixth-grade classmates made her a get-well card under the watchful eyes of grief counselors.
"I think it's taking a toll on our students and our staff," school superintendent Mary Jennings said. "But it brings out how strong a community that small and caring like Mont Vernon can be."
In a statement, police said they are looking for "two white males in connection with this investigation."
One is described as tall, skinny and bald, wearing a blue, hooded sweatshirt. The other is shorter, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to call New Hampshire State Police at (603) 271-3636.
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