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Police release new details on investigation into fatal stabbing in Manchester, NH

Manchester police said they responded to an apartment on Chestnut Street around 5 a.m. Sunday

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Authorities released new details Thursday about a fatal stabbing last weekend in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Carrie Drake, 54, is accused of fatally stabbing Vernon Hayford, 75, at an apartment on Chestnut Street early Sunday morning.

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Police said they responded to the apartment around 5 a.m. Sunday and found a man with life-threatening injuries. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. The case was originally reported as a suspicious death.

An autopsy determined Hayford's cause of death was homicide, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office said.

Drake is charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection with his stabbing death. She is also charged with being a felon in possession of a deadly weapon and resisting arrest.

She waived arraignment on the charges Monday, police said, and she continues to be held without bail.

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