BY JENNIFER McDOWELL

Hooksett police apprehended a convicted killer on the run for a parole violation on Monday, Oct. 29.

King was listed as a fugitive on Tuesday, Oct. 2, after failing to check in with his parole officer for several months and a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to Jeff Lyons, public information officer for the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.

Hooksett Police Sgt. Greg Martakos responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of Granite State Marketplace at 1328 Hooksett Road at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 29.

He found a Cleanique commercial cleaning crew van in the lot. The crew, which included King, said they had just finished cleaning the Empire Beauty School in the plaza.

Martakos ran King’s license information and found he was wanted in the state for parole violation, having not seen his parole officer, Gilles Provost, since January.

Hooksett Police Capt. Paul Cecilio said King was very cooperative with Martakos, who brought King to the Hooksett Police Station, where he was held for 72 hours. King was then brought to the Merrimack House of Corrections, Cecilio said.

King had been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for shooting and killing his brother Wayne in January of 2000. He was credited with 350 days time served, Lyons said.

King’s defense was that his brother had beaten him in a drunken rage, and that the shooting was in self defense, according to court reports.

King was paroled in September 2005, after serving a little more than five years of his sentence, with 1,234 days of that sentence suspended. His parole limit extended to January of 2019 at the time, said Lyons.

A warrant for his arrest was issued on Sept. 25, said Lyons. A week later, he was officially listed as a fugitive.

King’s revocation hearing before the parole board is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4, said John Eckert, executive assistant to the parole board, at which time the board will decide whether King was in violation during the time he went missing. He is currently detained at Merrimack County until that hearing occurs.

In addition to the sentence rendered at his parole hearing, King will have to serve an extra month on his existing parole sentence for the shooting, which will now end in February of 2019, to make up for the time he spent in fugitive status.

Depending on what the parole board decides, said Lyons, King could spend the remainder of that sentence in prison, or the board could decide that he spend only a portion of it incarcerated.

“It’s their call as to whether or not it gets set back,” Lyons said.

King has also been convicted of receiving stolen property, serving a year in prison starting in March of 2000 and running concurrently with his manslaughter sentence, according to Lyons.