Woman who died in NH standoff had dated gunman (AP) GREENLAND, N.H. - The woman who died during a standoff in New Hampshire that also killed a police chief was a 26-year-old cosmetologist who had dated the gunman on and off and had gone to him in recent days to help him sort through issues that were upsetting him, her mother said Saturday. Brittany Tibbetts was shot to death Thursday, her mother, Donna Tibbetts of Berwick, Maine, said. Authorities have not given her name but have said a woman was in the Greenland home where police tried to serve a search warrant when a man inside opened fire, killing the chief and wounding four officers. After a tense overnight standoff, the gunman, Cullen Mutrie, was found dead in the home early Friday along with Tibbetts. Both died of gunshot wounds to the head in what's been ruled a murder-suicide, authorities said Saturday. Donna Tibbetts said the pair dated off and on for about a year and a half. They were broken up and her daughter had moved back home, but "he in the last few days had some sort of issues that were upsetting him and she went back to try and help." She said her daughter, an award-winning high school softball pitcher who was Maine Player of the Year in 2003-2004, went on to be trained and to work as a cosmetologist. Candlelight vigil held for shot NH police chief Suspect in fatal shooting of Police Chief Michael Maloney dies after New Hampshire standoff He did odd jobs and helped with his mother's printing business, said Donna Tibbetts. He hoped to become a firefighter, Tibbetts said. "We had only met him a few times," she said of Mutrie. He was nice enough to us. We might have had some concerns, but we just basically thought that Brittany was a big girl and it had to be left up to her. It was her choice. She cared about him. She must have seen something good in him. That was the type of girl she was. ... I don't want her life to be defined by this one thing because she was a beautiful, caring girl. Mutrie was the target of the final drug bust that Greenland's slain police chief, Michael Maloney, was planning before he retired after more than a quarter-century in law enforcement. Trying to rid a neighborhood of its menace just days before retirement proved to be the 48-year-old chief's final act. "He died trying to make our community safer," said John Penacho, chairman of the town's Board of Selectman. "He never put his hand up to stop a conversation and always made himself available," Another Greenland selectman, John Vitale, said after a memorial at a school Saturday. Many who didn't know Maloney attended. "I've been a part of the community for 25 years; it's the least I can do," said Rick Bzdafka, a Greendale Central School Science teacher. Around 2 a.m., a tactical team placed a robot equipped with a video camera in the home, and it detected the bodies of Mutrie and Tibbetts. The Rev. Robert Fellows, pastor of the Greenland Community Congregational Church, said he led a prayer and moment of silence at the memorial Saturday. Fellows saw the event as a "coming together" for the town. "It's a turning point and a new beginning," he said. A wake for Maloney is set for Wednesday, and a funeral service will be held Thursday at the Winnacunnet High School Athletic Field at noon.