An investigation is underway after a New Hampshire State Police trooper shot a woman following a vehicle chase in the Seacoast region early Sunday morning. She was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Around 1:30 a.m., near the town line between Dover and Rochester, 28-year-old Moriah Infinger sped away from an attempted traffic stop on the Spaulding Turnpike, according to a press release from the attorney general’s office. After a high-speed pursuit that ended with police using a spike strip to puncture the tires and stop the vehicle, an officer fired his weapon.

Peter Hinckley, senior assistant attorney general, said he couldn’t give further details about the encounter that followed the chase, saying it’s still an active investigation.

Infinger was the only person in the car and was charged with “various offenses” in connection to the chase, according to a press release.

The Department of Justice has not yet disclosed the officer’s name but will do so after formally interviewing him, which will likely happen sometime this week. A full investigation is expected to take several months to determine whether the use of deadly force was justified. No police officers were injured.

Police have shot two other people — one resulting in a fatality — in New Hampshire so far this year, and Infinger is the first woman to be shot by an officer in several years.

In 2024, police officers used deadly force nine times, with all but one incident resulting in a loss of life. So far, the AG’s office has ruled use of deadly force legally justified in every completed investigation of incidents from that timeframe.

The most recent charges filed against an officer for their involvement in someone’s death was in February 2024, when former corrections officer Matthew Millar was charged with second-degree murder for causing the death of an incarcerated person in April 2023.

This is a developing story.