Montpelier shooting death: ‘It’s really hard to grapple with’

Scene from the standoff and fatal shooting of Nathan Giffin at Montpelier High School. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
In the late morning on a cold Tuesday, January 16, Nathan Giffin was shot and killed in a hail of police gunfire on the snowy grounds of Montpelier High School, where he had fled after robbing the Vermont State Employees Credit Union. He was 32.
Giffin was shot following a standoff lasting 50 minutes — with the high school on lockdown and law enforcement officers swa