PARIS – A Massachusetts man was accused Wednesday of pointing a shotgun at a Maine State Police trooper after a high speed chase through Brownfield and Fryeburg.

Taylor Michaud, 32, of Fairhaven, Mass., got out of his car on Route 5 in Fryeburg, cocked a long-barreled shotgun and raised it toward Trooper John Hainey, according to a police affidavit.

Hainey fired four rounds from his handgun but missed Michaud, who quickly dropped the shotgun and surrendered, the report stated.

Michaud “showed absolute willingness to shoot and kill a Maine State Trooper,” Oxford County Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne said at Michaud’s bail hearing Thursday in 11th District Court in South Paris.

Michaud’s bail was set at $50,000 cash, or $100,000 single surety, after his arrest on charges of being a fugitive from justice, criminal threatening with a firearm, eluding a police officer and driving to endanger.

Michaud, who is also wanted on multiple terrorizing charges in New Bedford, Mass., is being held at the Oxford County Jail. He faces a July 13 probable cause hearing in Bridgton District Court.

The Maine Attorney General’s office is doing a routine investigation into the use of deadly force by Hainey.

The chase began when Hainey, U.S. Marshal Chris Clifford and Massachusetts police, acting on a tip, arrived at the home of Michaud’s aunt, Robyn Michaud-Demello, at 66 Pig St. in Brownfield.

While talking to Michaud-Demello in her driveway, Michaud drove in with passenger Robert Tibbetts Jr. of Center Conway, N.H., saw police and quickly backed out as the officers – guns drawn – yelled at him to stop, the affidavit states.

Michaud stopped long enough to let Tibbetts out of the SUV, then sped off, with Hainey and the other officers in pursuit. Speeds reached 90 miles an hour as Hainey chased Michaud for nearly 15 miles on Route 113, then through Fryeburg village and north on Route 5.

A few miles north of the village Michaud ran over spike mats laid across the highway by Oxford County Sheriff’s Cpl. Matt Baker, and three of his tires were flattened causing him to pulled over.

Hainey, who was alone at this point, stopped about 50 feet behind Michaud. As Hainey got out of his cruiser, Michaud got out of his car with the shotgun in hand.

“Michaud racked the slide of the shotgun and began to raise/point the shotgun at Trooper Hainey,” the affidavit by State Trooper Matt Griffin states.

Hainey fired at him and Michaud dropped the shotgun and surrendered.

Baker arrived minutes after Hainey, and the two took Michaud into custody.

Police charged Michaud’s aunt with hindering apprehension and Tibbetts with failure to appear in Oxford County Superior Court and Bridgton District Court. Both were taken to Oxford County Jail.

Tibbetts was released on $2,827 bail Thursday. Michaud-Demello was still being held Thursday after bail in her case was set at $50,000 single surety or $10,000 cash.

At Thursday’s bail hearing, Judge Rick Lawrence agreed with Beauchesne’s argument that a high bail amount was warranted.

In Massachusetts, Michaud is wanted for discharging a firearm in public, destruction of property, threat to commit a crime, five counts of violation of protection orders, three counts of stalking, and witness intimidation, among other charges.

Court-appointed attorney Ted Dilworth said it was unlikely that Michaud would be able to make bail. Lawrence said that if he did, Michaud was not to leave the state without permission from the court, and not own or possess any firearm or have any contact with his aunt.

Fryeburg and Bridgton police assisted in the chase.