MATINICUS, Maine (AP) – Police say the shooting of a lobsterman was fueled by a dispute over fishing territory in the lobster-rich waters off Maine.
Sixty-eight-year-old Vance Bunker was being held Tuesday on $50,000 bail for elevated aggravated assault for allegedly shooting fellow lobsterman Chris Young in the neck with a .22-caliber handgun Monday morning.
Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said tensions between Bunker and Young had escalated to the point where a Maine Marine Patrol officer was called to the island, 20 miles off Rockland. McCausland said the shooting took place on a pier while the officer was on Young’s boat.
Young was flown by plane to the mainland and taken to a Lewiston hospital, where he underwent surgery and was in stable condition.
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- This Monday July 20, 2009 booking photo released by Maine’s Knox County Sheriff’s Office shows Edwin Vance Bunker who was being held Tuesday on $50,000 bail for elevated aggravated assault for allegedly shooting fellow lobsterman Chris Young, Monday morning on Maine’s Matinicus island. Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says an argument over fishing territory led to the shooting. (AP Photo/Knox County Sheriff Office)
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