“Logan Clegg is a stone-cold, violent murderer, nothing more,” Judge John Kissinger said. “He shot and killed Steve and Wendy Reid for no reason. His statements today ring hollow. He deserves nothing less than a sentence that fully reflects the magnitude of his crimes…My hope in imposing this sentence is that the defendant never again walks the streets as a free man.”
Logan Clegg was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Djeswende and Stephen Reid after a Merrimack County Superior Court jury deliberated for about 10 hours Friday and Monday.
A Merrimack County Superior Court jury deliberated more than six hours Friday without reaching a verdict on the fate of Logan Clegg, charged with second-degree murder for shooting a Concord couple to death in April 2022.
The jury will have to deliver verdicts on nine charges against Clegg: two counts of second-degree murder for “knowingly causing the death” of each of the Reids, two alternative second-degree murder charges for “recklessly causing” their deaths, four counts of falsifying physical evidence and one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
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A defense witness who is an expert in analyzing digital photos punched holes in the prosecution’s case that a troublesome shell casing tied to the shooting deaths of Djeswende and Stephen Reid was at the crime scene before it was found May 20, 2022, a month after the Concord couple was shot.
“There’s sufficient evidence” that Clegg may be the person who shot Djeswende and Stephen Reid to death, and all of the indictments will pass to the jury, Kissinger said after hearing the defense and state make their case in a 15-minute motion hearing after the state rested its case Tuesday.
Piece of evidence by piece of evidence, defense attorney Caroline Smith established that there was no blood or DNA evidence found on any of the items collected – at the scene of the shooting, a burned tent site nearby or six months later on Clegg’s person or among his belongings – that tied him to the double shooting.
The jury will have to go by Det. Brown’s testimony on that part of the interview, as well as his assertion that he read Logan Clegg his Miranda Rights and Clegg said he understood and waived them. The first 13 minutes of the interview weren’t audio-recorded because of a misunderstanding between Concord police and the South Burlington police, in whose station the interview was taking place.
One of the biggest questions in the case against Logan Clegg on charges he shot Djeswende and Stephen Reid, is whether he could have walked from Shaw’s supermarket on Loudon Road, where he was caught on video leaving at about 2:29 p.m. April 18, 2022, shot the Reids in the Broken Ground Trail System, dragged them about 50 yards off the trail, then look fresh and unruffled when a woman walking her dogs passed a man police believe was him on the trail about 20 minutes later.