PARKMAN (AP) – A man who was shot to death after he took two shotguns to a neighbor’s house and demanded beer was having emotional problems and started taking new medications before the incident, his widow said.
Robyn Glover said her husband, 33-year-old William Glover, was a good father and was gentle with the couple’s two daughters, who are 6 and 2. “Billy was troubled, but he wasn’t vicious,” she said.
Her husband had been diagnosed with diabetes in March and was taking new medicine, Robyn Glover said. He had also been taking antidepressants, she said.
William Glover had enrolled in a detoxification program in Waterville two weeks ago because he had been drinking too much and was told by the trucking company that employed him that he was being fired, his widow added.
Glover, armed and wearing camouflaged clothing, walked from a snowmobile trail to the home of David Tweedie, 40, and demanded beer late Sunday. Glover left after Tweedie refused and Tweedie called 911 to report the incident.
Glover returned 10 to 15 minutes later, this time pointing his shotguns in the direction of Tweedie and his daughter, Lori Tweedie said. Her husband, fearing he and his daughter were in danger, fired through the screen door, she said.
Tweedie fired from a long rifle, an investigator said, and autopsy results showed that Glover died of multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen.
No charges had been filed as of Tuesday, as state police investigators continued reviewing autopsy results, ballistics tests, evidence from the scene and interviews as they sought to piece together what happened, spokesman Stephen McCausland of the state Public Safety Department said.
Police were not expected to complete their investigation this week, McCausland said.
Glover and Tweedie’s homes are both along Wellington Road in the small Piscataquis County town, but the two men did not know each other, police said.
The state attorney general’s office will decide whether charges will be filed, McCausland said.
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