Kevin Paul, 41, of New Hampshire State Prison, Concord

CONCORD – The arrest Tuesday by county sheriffs of 41-year-old Kevin Paul for felony escape adds one more charge to his lengthy criminal record, which includes convictions accusing him of being present for the murder of an Epsom police officer and shooting at police while he and the murder suspect fled the scene.

Paul, who lived in Concord before starting his 17-year State Prison term in 1998, was paroled in early 2015, but soon fell back into criminal activities and ended up being arrested again.

The escape charge filed Tuesday accuses Paul of violating terms of his subsequent parole by allegedly failing to meet with his parole officer then disappearing from his Manchester residence. The GPS tracking bracelet had stopped working as well, authorities said.

A warrant for his arrest was issued Feb. 14, authorities said, and Paul was located just five days later in Copperas Cove, Texas, a town just west of Killeen that abuts Fort Hood, where members of the U.S. Marshal’s Service took him into custody.

Paul has been in prison since, and it was there that sheriffs charged him with escape Tuesday.

He faces arraignment Wednesday in Superior Court.

Paul and the gunman, Gordon Perry, were arrested in August 1997 in connection with the murder of Epsom Patrolman Jeremy Charron, 24, who was shot and killed while checking on two men sleeping in a car on Route 28 near Elkins Road.

Perry, who would be sentenced to life in prison without parole, reportedly pulled out a gun and shot Charron, who returned fire until he collapsed.

The two fled the scene, and a short time later attempted to rob a convenience store. Officers who arrived at the scene were able to take them into custody after a brief exchange of gunfire.

On the morning of the day he was killed, Charron attended the funerals of state Troopers Leslie Lord and Scott Phillips, who were among four people killed and four others wounded in a deadly shooting spree perpetrated by a disgruntled 62-year-old man from the Concord area.

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Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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