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CHATHAM, N.H. (AP) – A Maine man was charged with murder and assault Tuesday after a shooting that left a 14-year-old girl dead and a woman wounded.

James Mann, 43, of Fryeburg, Maine, was arraigned on second-degree murder and first-degree assault charges in Conway District Court. He was ordered held without bail at the Carroll County jail for a July 26 probable cause hearing.

Assistant Attorney General David Ruoff said the shootings happened around 10 p.m. Monday in a house in Chatham, population 300, near the Maine border.

He identified the dead girl as Jasmine Steele and the wounded woman as Linda Miles, in whose house the shootings happened. He said Mann and the victims knew each other but were not related.

The victims were shot in the head.

Miles was listed in fair condition at Maine Medical Center, where she was treated for face and eye injuries.

Steele lived in the area, Ruoff said, although he declined to say whether she lived in the Miles home.

Jayne Britton, a Chatham resident, said Miles had had people living in the house off and on.

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