Cpl. Karl Roy of the Wells Police Division stands exterior police tape at a house at 97 Crediford Highway about 6 p.m. Saturday. Ben McCanna/Employees Photographer
WELLS — Three folks had been shot – together with a younger little one – round 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Wells, authorities mentioned.
The capturing concerned relations at a house at 97 Crediford Highway, and by 5:45 p.m. the alleged shooter was being detained on the Wells Police Division, based on a posting on the division’s Fb web page. The capturing victims had been taken to space hospitals, police mentioned.
Talking exterior the home Saturday evening, Shannon Moss, spokeswoman for the Maine Division of Public Security, wouldn’t verify what number of victims there have been or what their circumstances had been. She didn’t reply when requested if one of many victims had died.
“This can be a household. These are victims of a household. We must be delicate, we must be cognizant of that,” Moss mentioned. “There are relations and buddies and neighbors who’re very involved proper now and clearly so. Legislation enforcement is anxious. However once more our precedence is ensuring we are able to work out what occurred.”
Moss additionally mentioned: “We do have a number of gunshot victims. We can not speak about any identities or any relationships at this level, however we are able to say they’re at the moment nonetheless on the hospital.”
Authorities are working “to strive to determine what occurred, what led as much as this capturing right here in Wells.”
Moss confirmed round 6:30 p.m. that Maine State Police’s Main Crimes Unit has change into the first legislation enforcement company within the investigation.
The MCU is accountable for main investigations, together with homicides, suspicious deaths and little one abuse instances, based on the Division of Public Security web site. Moss mentioned earlier Saturday state police would probably not change into the first legislation enforcement company within the case until there’s a dying ensuing from the capturing.
Wells police Capt. Gerald Congdon informed Information Heart Maine that one of many victims was a younger little one.
Detectives wish to speak to among the victims and any witnesses, Moss mentioned. She mentioned quite a few folks had known as 911 to say that they heard pictures fired on the house.
Wells police mentioned that there isn’t any menace to most of the people, that the capturing scene had been made secure and that the capturing was an remoted incident. Police didn’t initially say the place the capturing befell, however round 6 p.m. there have been three police vehicles exterior the home on Crediford Highway, which is Route 9A. The small, two-story home is in a rural neighborhood the place properties are pretty far aside.
Round 7 p.m., police tape was strung throughout the highway on each side of the home and two Wells law enforcement officials had been standing within the highway. Each the entrance and aspect doorways to the home had been ajar, however there no outward indicators of harm or of a capturing. Purple and white lilac bushes stood close to the driveway.
Cpl. Karl Roy ties police tape to a tree close to 97 Crediford Highway in Wells, the scene of a capturing. Ben McCanna/Employees Photographer
TV crews and different media gathered within the parking zone of the close by Mt. Zion Chapel, at 119 Crediford Highway, however no neighbors or different onlookers gave the impression to be available.
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