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SHOOTING

Published
September 3, 2023

Maine’s gun laws couldn’t stop 2 deadly shootings this year. Are more laws the answer?

Violent incidents in Bowdoin and Westbrook have been used by advocates on both sides of the gun control debate to argue that the current laws don't work as intended.
Published
August 31, 2023

Westbrook man charged with killing couple in front of their young children enters insanity plea

Court records indicate Marcel LaGrange, 24, told detectives that he shot 2 people. He's now facing several charges in the deaths of Brittney Cockrell, 37, and Michael Hayter, 41.
Published
August 27, 2023

Racist shooter in Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store identified: ‘This guy is a bad guy’

Before the shooting, the man was denied entry to a historically black college by a security officer, and local law enforcement was alerted.
Published
August 26, 2023

White man fatally shoots 3 Black people at Florida store in what officials say is a hate crime

Jacksonville's sheriff said the gunman, who took his own life after the killings, was "racially motivated" and "hated Black people."
Published
August 26, 2023

University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home, police say

Police said preliminary information indicated that Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, a sophomore, lived on the same street as where he was shot but apparently was attempting to enter another home.

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Published
August 26, 2023

Police: 1 teen is dead, 2 people wounded after shooting at high school football game in Oklahoma

The boy was not a student of either school, according to Choctaw Police Chief Kelly Marshall, who did not release the names of any of the victims.
Published
August 25, 2023

Prosecutors to appeal judge’s decision to vacate Portland man’s manslaughter conviction

Mark Cardilli Jr., who admitted to shooting his sister’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Isahak Muse, in 2019, was freed on $20,000 cash bail Friday and will get a new trial if the state's appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court is rejected.
Published
August 25, 2023

Man convicted of aggravated assault in Riverton shooting seeks new trial

Abdihamit Ali, 23, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning but the hearing was delayed after his attorneys petitioned the court for a new trial.
Published
August 25, 2023

South Portland officer shoots and kills man in armed confrontation at apartment complex

Officer Anthony Verville fatally shot Christapher Dodge, 47, after responding to a domestic violence shooting at the Summit Terrace apartments early Friday.
Published
August 11, 2023

Man accused of killing Westbrook couple also shot at their son, indictment says

A Cumberland County grand jury indicted Marcel LaGrange Jr., 24, on six charges, including two counts of murder and one count of aggravated attempted murder.