AUGUSTA – Authorities on Tuesday named the hunter involved in the shooting death of Megan Ripley, 18, of Paris.

Ripley was shot in the chest near her Christian Ridge Road home Thursday and died shortly afterward.

Timothy P. Bean, 51, of Paris is the hunter police and wardens interviewed at the scene, a statement from the Maine Warden Service said.

Bean attended Ripley’s funeral Tuesday in Oxford.

“Bean was dressed in blaze orange and hunting deer in the area at that time,” the e-mail statement by Warden Service spokesman Mark Latti said.

Latti said later that no charges had been filed, but the Warden Service will deliver the findings of its investigation to the Maine Attorney General’s Office later this week.

“At that point, there may be charges filed,” Latti said in a phone message.

A check by the Sun Journal of state records showed that Bean has no criminal record in Maine.

He also has not been convicted of any motor vehicle-related offenses in the last 10 years.

The location of the investigation is focused on a wooded area nearly one-quarter mile from the Christian Ridge Road, according to the release.

The incident occurred at approximately 3:45 p.m. Thursday during the second week of state’s muzzleloading deer hunting season. Legal hunting hours ended that day at 4:24 p.m. The season ended Saturday.

Ripley became the first hunting-related fatality in Maine since 2004.

The last non-hunter killed by a hunter was Mark Rackliff in 1990. Rackliff, of Hudson, was splitting wood when he was shot by Leroy M. Sabine. Sabine was later convicted of manslaughter and failing to render aid. He was sentenced to five years in prison on each count.

Ripley’s death Thursday is the 11th hunting-related firearm injury this year. Seven of the 11 were self-inflicted, according to the Warden Service statement.