The Office of the Maine Attorney General has ruled that police acted in self-defense when they shot a man in Franklin County in July 2025.

Maine State Police specialist Andrew Hardy and Wilton police Officer Cody Henry shot the man, who was accused of threatening to shoot people who were doing landscaping work at a home in Wilton.

Attorney General Aaron Frey wrote in a report released Friday that officers reasonably believed that the man was posing a threat to them during a standoff.

The attorney general’s office reviews all police shootings in the state and hasn’t found one to be unjustified since at least 1990.

Gabriel Wilbur was staying at a property on Cemetery Road when authorities served him with eviction paperwork on July 11, according to the report. Shortly after police left the paperwork, 911 dispatchers received a call that Wilbur had pointed a gun at people working on the property and threatened to kill them. Wilbur also said multiple times that he wanted police to return and fatally shoot him, according to the report.

Police who arrived reported that Wilbur was swearing and raising his middle finger at officers. Hardy, who is on the state police tactical team, positioned himself across the road at a higher elevation to overlook the scene, the report reads.

Wilbur barricaded himself in a vehicle, and Hardy reported seeing him point a gun at the officers. Hardy fired several shots at the vehicle before Wilbur repositioned himself in an apparent attempt to “get another angle on officers,” Hardy told investigators. Hardy and Henry both fired more shots at the vehicle.

When Wilbur eventually left the vehicle, his shoulder was bleeding. Officers used a Taser on him twice and took him into custody, according to the report. He was taken to the hospital by LifeFlight and treated for three gunshot wounds to his shoulder. Police later found several firearms in the vehicle, the report shows.

Frey wrote in his report that Wilbur was sentenced this month to six months in jail after he pleaded no contest to reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and creating a police standoff.