Members of several groups, including the U.S. Army Reserve, Maine State Police and the medical examiner’s office, will testify at public hearings on April 4 and April 11 at the University of Maine in Augusta.
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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Lewiston victims, law enforcement see a lot riding on investigators’ full report on mass shooting
The interim findings of the state-appointed panel focused largely on ‘abdication of law enforcement’s duty,’ but preventing future killings will require more than laying blame.
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State trooper’s ankle broken, another is bitten during arrest in Limerick
State police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
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Sagadahoc deputy criticized for failing to arrest Lewiston shooter is running for sheriff
Sgt. Aaron Skolfield, who has faced scrutiny for failing to properly heed warnings about Robert Card’s declining mental health, filed paperwork to run for Sagadahoc County sheriff in February.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Commission: Police should have seized Lewiston shooter’s guns months before tragedy
The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy’s failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September ‘an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility.”‘
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Attorney general finds police shooting in Rangeley Plantation was justified
A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, News
Stonehedge, a popular music venue in Gray, burns down
Firefighters arrived in time to save owner Russell Jeffords’ house, but he lost the barn that hosted weddings and concerts, as well as the instruments and sound equipment stored in it.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
South Portland teen accused in school shooting plot will be tried in juvenile court
Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn’t meet its burden in order to prosecute a 17-year-old as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation for murder for an alleged plot to shoot up South Portland High School.
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Bridgton man pleads not guilty to killing partner
Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.