[Updated 3:41 p.m.] Maine State Police Lt. Brian McDonough, the commanding officer of the Major Crimes Unit that covers Franklin County, appeared with MSP personnel and Rangeley Police Chief Russell French outside of 2564 Main Street for a brief press conference held earlier today.
McDonough offered reporters few specific details into the confrontation which killed one man and injured two others at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning. The call came in as a home invasion, McDonough said.
The deceased man had not been identified by MSP at the time of the press conference, with an autopsy scheduled for Friday. McDonough said that approximately a dozen people had been interviewed by police and that more interviews and follow-up interviews would be conducted as the investigation unfolded. McDonough described the scene as “complicated.”
Both McDonough and French said they did not believe that the general public was at any risk as a result of the incident, and that the residence appeared to have been targeted specifically.
RANGELEY – One man is dead and two others have been injured in an early morning confrontation at a Main Street residence, according to a spokesperson for the Maine State Police.
Maine State Police detectives are questioning several people in relation to the incident, which occurred at a residence at 2564 Main Street at approximately 2 a.m. this morning, according to spokesperson Stephen McCausland. Following the confrontation, two injured men were taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, where one of them is undergoing emergency surgery. A third man, whose name has not been released yet, is dead.
In a brief statement released this morning, McCausland said that teams of detectives are in Rangeley and Farmington, working out of the Farmington Police Station.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
