Overview
- Dover police entered a home on Dover Point Road during a follow-up welfare check and found the bodies of Eileen Shevelin, 78, and her son Thomas Wallace, 57, on Tuesday.
- Autopsies conducted Wednesday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Concord determined Shevelin died of asphyxiation and ruled her death a homicide while Wallace died of a single gunshot wound to the head and his manner of death was ruled suicide.
- Officials say the evidence indicates Wallace asphyxiated his mother and then shot himself, the investigation remains open, and authorities say there is no known threat to the public.
- The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and Dover police do not expect to release further details at this time and the family has asked for privacy.
- Authorities referred the public to support resources for domestic violence and suicide prevention and noted that murder‑suicides are rare in New Hampshire, with investigators following standard homicide procedures as they close the case to public comment.