BELFAST (AP) – A Maine man who was acquitted of murder in the shotgun death of a 60-year-old woman has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in damages.

A judge on Thursday ruled that Jerome Reynolds Jr. is liable in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of Janet Bacon. The judge set compensatory damages of about $308,000 and set punitive damages at $50,000, not including court costs.

Reynolds acknowledged shooting Bacon when she came to his house looking for his father, who’d had words with Bacon earlier in the evening.

Bacon was unarmed and wearing a nightgown. Justice Jeffrey Hjelm says shooting a defenseless woman was “an extraordinary overreaction.”