BANGOR (AP) – A 52-year-old woman who was critically wounded in what investigators described as a domestic shooting at her home in Lee died Sunday in Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Rosemarie Dyer had been listed in critical condition at the Bangor hospital after being shot in the leg Friday with a shotgun.

Her husband, Carl Dyer, 50, was being held on $20,000 cash bail in the Penobscot County Jail on a preliminary charge of aggravated assault.

The charge will be upgraded as a result of his wife’s death, but no final decision on the new charge is likely until Dyer makes his initial court appearance Tuesday, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.

Investigators were notified by the hospital that Rosemarie Dyer died around 11 a.m.

Detectives plan to review results of a pending autopsy and ballistics tests along with evidence gathered by detectives Saturday from the couple’s home on a dirt road about a quarter mile off Route 168, McCausland said.

Penobscot County sheriff’s deputies responded Friday afternoon to a 911 call from the husband, according to McCausland, who said it was not clear what sparked the violence.

He said detectives were interviewing people who knew the couple.

“Penobscot County sheriff’s deputies and state police troopers have been to the home a number of times, and some of those were domestic related,” he said.

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