Posted on 04/18/2023 12:06:58 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Family dispute sounds like.
a-huggin’ and a-chalkin’
I worked in Portland and Lewiston for a couple years. I would make an annual journey to “The County”. And I have a sister in Law who was born and raised in Millinocket.
I never actually had a residence there, as I had another office in Western MA.
Gravy SEALS...good stuff.
Cuisine Berets
LMAO!
Bugs keep the rodents away.
There’s certainly enough fentanyl in this country to kill everyone. We had a drug bust this past week in our small community. Guy was 41 yrs. old dealing meth and fentanyl. It’s everywhere there’s any other drugs.
There’s a stretch of road, up in Maine . . . .
Tombstone Every Mile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFzfDv2hz0
I think Maine has more trees than the other 49 states combined.
If you don't believe me, drive up there sometime!
I camped in Maine when I was a kid. The mosquitoes took about a gallon of blood out of me every night.
I’ve been on The Airline, route 9, but never on that road.
Apparently just a major bad guy. Just released under relaxed laws.
A 34-year-old man with a violent criminal history dating back a decade was charged with murder in the deaths of four people discovered at a Bowdoin residence on Tuesday morning.
Joseph M. Eaton of Bowdoin was apprehended after shooting three other people off Interstate 295 in Yarmouth and is being held at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said.
Four people were found dead at a residence on Augusta Road in Bowdoin at around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Police have said the deaths are related to the Yarmouth shooting that left three people injured and one person in critical condition.
Police had not released the names of any of the victims on Tuesday evening with those in Bowdoin awaiting autopsy results. Eaton is being held without bail and will make a court appearance later this week, Moss said.
Eaton’s criminal record dates back to 2013. He has been charged with 15 different crimes before Tuesday’s shootings, according to a state police background check document. Those crimes include felonies that bar people from possessing guns under state and federal law.
He was just coming off an eight-month sentence in March 2022 after a felony assault conviction in Knox County. He has also been convicted of aggravated assault, simple assault and several probation violations.
Thank you. Sad story.
Releasing criminals and releasing illegals into the public does not make for any good outcome.
UPDATE
Killer demonizes Christians about lack of acceptance. Trans?
BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on Interstate 295, just days after being released from prison, police said Wednesday.
Law enforcement officials released more information including identities of the victims of the shootings at a home in Bowdoin and 25 miles to the south on the highway in Yarmouth, Maine.
34-year-old Joseph Eaton had been released Friday from the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, where he was picked up by his mother after completing a sentence for aggravated assault, police said. That crime was serious enough to prevent him from possessing a gun in Maine.
The shootings in Maine began in the small town of Bowdoin, where four people were killed Tuesday, with three bodies discovered in a home and one in a barn, police said. Then a chaotic scene developed in which shots were fired at vehicles on an interstate highway over 20 miles (32 kilometers) away in the community of Yarmouth, police said. Three people were shot there, and one remained in critical condition Wednesday.
The seven people shot Tuesday were the latest victims of mass shootings in the U.S., whose targets included a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee; a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, and a Sweet Sixteen party in a small city in Alabama.
“This is an active investigation with a lot of moving parts,” Shannon Moss, state police spokesperson, said Wednesday.
The day before the shootings, an anguished man believed to be Eaton posted a roughly two-minute live video on Facebook criticizing people who he said are Christian and don’t give people a second chance. “What good does it do to hate somebody?” he said, choking back tears on the video. “You know, it destroys you.”
On the day he was released from prison, the man believed to be Eaton posted on Facebook that he was feeling thankful. “It’s finally over. There are so many people I can’t wait to see.”
Moss confirmed that state police were aware of the video, and that it’s part of their investigation.
Eaton, who was living in Bowdoin, was charged with four counts of murder but was not immediately charged in the highway shootings, she said. He was jailed while awaiting a court appearance. It was unclear if he had an attorney to speak on his behalf, a jail official said Wednesday.
The victims shot inside the Bowdoin home were identified as 72-year-old Robert Eger and his wife 62-year-old Patricia Eger as well as 62-year-old Cynthia Eaton. The body belonging to the suspect’s father, 66-year-old David Eaton, was found in a detached barn on the property.
Those injured in the Yarmouth highway shooting were identified as 51-year-old Sean Halsey and his two children, 29-year-old Justin Halsey and 25-year-old Paige Halsey of Bowdoinham. Paige Halsey was still in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland on Wednesday.
Ian Halsey, of Bowdoinham, said that two cousins were shot and that his uncle suffered shrapnel injuries in a single car. None of the family knew the shooter, he said.
“They were just passersby in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said of his family. “It’s horrible what happened.”
In Bowdoin, 58-year-old Denise Pride, a neighbor who lives in a farmhouse down the street from the location of the four deaths, said members of the rural community were shaken by the tragedy. The house where the killings took place is in a wooded area of rolling hills and farms, and houses range from mobile homes to large estates.
Pride said one of the victims was famous for delivering baked goods to neighbors on holidays. “They were very kind people,” Pride said. “The neighbors were texting, shocked that it happened, and to them.”
Eaton was charged over the past decade with more than a half-dozen crimes and served an eight-month sentence last year for assault, according to state records. Past convictions included aggravated assault, a felony that would prevent him from legally having a firearm.
The origins and ownership of the firearms used in Tuesday’s shootings were unclear. State police declined to comment on the weapon that was used.
In Bowdoin, yellow crime tape hung where the shootings took place in a home flanked by woods at the end of a long, gravel driveway. Detectives and evidence technicians remained in the home collecting evidence late Tuesday, long after hearses left the driveway.
At one point, a woman spoke to police outside the house, then dropped to her knees and sobbed.
In Yarmouth on Wednesday, traffic flowed normally on Interstate 295, where a day before the three people were shot in cars and the gunman was apprehended.
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Sharp reported from Portland.
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