Bad Blood by Casey Sherman

Author:Casey Sherman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of New England

Chapter 159 of the New Hampshire state gun law states that only a city mayor, town selectman, chief of police, or full-time police officer can grant a permit for a person to carry a loaded pistol or revolver; the applicant must indicate (1) good reason to fear injury to the applicant's person or property; or (2) any other proper purpose, such as hunting, target shooting, or self-defense. Liko Kenney may have had good reason to fear injury, but of course he had never sought a permit to carry his gun. The trail of ownership of the .45 caliber Hi-Point semi-automatic begins in April 2003, when a man by the name of Scott John Walker bought the firearm at the Village Gun Store in Whitefield, New Hampshire. Walker told investigators that he purchased the pistol to carry with him while bear hunting. Walker worked as a cook at the Dairy Bar restaurant in Franconia at the time. He said he had never liked the pistol, calling it “cheap” and “a piece of junk” because it frequently jammed. Walker had only had it for a few months before he sold it to Steve Dunleavey, a coworker at the Dairy Bar. Dunleavey had seen the weapon in Walker's truck and had expressed an interest in buying it from him. Walker sold the pistol to Dunleavey in July 2003 after typing up a bill of sale that both men had signed. Along with the gun, the deal also included two clips and fifty rounds of ammunition. When police tracked Dunleavey down approximately one month after the McKay shooting, the man could barely remember the transaction. He did recollect that he paid $150 for it but no longer had the bill of sale. Dunleavey claimed he had only shot the gun once and that it jammed on every fifth round. He said he sold the gun to “some guy” in Franconia, but couldn't remember who. “Maybe my ex-girlfriend knows,” he told investigators. “Why don't you go ask her?”

When police approached Brenda Saunders at her trailer home that same day, she told them she had been with Steven Dunleavey for twenty years and that she knew the weapon they were talking about. The purchase of the firearm had been a point of contention with the couple. Saunders had gone to the extreme of hiding it on him because she did not trust him with it.

“So who did Dunleavey sell the gun to?” the officer asked. Saunders was unsure at first until the phone inside her trailer rang. Another woman inside the trailer answered the phone and then shouted, “Matt Chernicki!” The officers figured the person on the phone was Steve Dunleavey. Brenda Saunders reiterated that her former boyfriend had in fact sold the gun to Matthew Chernicki. Chernicki was a close friend of Liko Kenney; when he finally met with investigators at the Easton Fire Department, Chernicki told them that he was “mentally unbalanced” and upset after burying his friend. When asked about the gun, Chernicki said he'd had it in his possession for only eight months.

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