Maine
Maine AG: Police justified in 2021 Waterville shooting
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – The Maine Legal professional Common’s Workplace has dominated police had been justified in utilizing lethal power towards a Waterville man in February of final yr.
Officers say Eric Porter, 32, was threatening them and one other bystander with a big knife within the parking zone of a resort.
Porter then ran onto I-95 the place the AG’s workplace discovered he charged at an officer with the knife over his head.
Earlier makes an attempt to subdue Porter utilizing non-deadly power had been unsuccessful.
He died as the results of a single gunshot wound to the again.
Legal professional Common Aaron Frey dominated the officer who shot Porter acted within the protection of one other.
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