Hudson Man ID'd as Nashua Shooting Victim

NASHUA, N.H. – One of the two people shot Friday died early Saturday morning, while the shooter was found dead of an apparent suicide in Lawrence, Mass., New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster and Nashua Police Chief John Seusing announced May 3.

Andres Garcia, 35, of Hudson, and Mireily Rodriguez-Torres, 32, of Nashua, were shot multiple times with a handgun, police said. Garcia died at about 2 a.m. May 3 at a Boston hospital.

Rodriguez-Torres is expected to survive her wounds. She is at a Boston hospital recovering.

Nashua police identified the shooter as Carlos Alago-Collazo, 34, of Nashua. Police said he and Rodriguez-Torres had been in a relationship off and on over about 15 years and had two children together. 

Investigators tracked down a man believed to be Alago-Collazo by using cell phone information at about 8:40 Friday night. He was discovered in a car parked outside of 696 Essex St. in Lawrence. Police said apparently committed suicide. No one else was injured during those events in Massachusetts.

Nashua police officers responded to the area of 14 Merrimack St. around 4:14 p.m. May 2 for the report of a shooting.  Arriving officers found the two shooting victims on the ground in front of 16 Merrimack St., both shot multiple times.

The Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will be conducting autopsies on Garcia and Alago-Collazo on May 4.

The murder-suicide case remains under investigation by the Nashua Police Department and Attorney General's Office.