AUGUSTA (April 11): The following information was compiled by the Public Information Office for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Maine State Police face longest stand-off in 20 years.
The 16-plus-hour standoff Friday in Auburn was the longest involving the Maine State Police in more than 20 years. A half-dozen nearby residents were evacuated from their homes in an armored car. More than 100 phone calls were placed to the house, attempting to make contact with the gunman, James Michael Peters, 42, who shot and killed his mother, Margaret Peters, in the driveway of her home. Ten New Hampshire State Police tactical team members assisted.
Two teenager girls were killed Wednesday, April 4, in separate car crashes in Sumner and Topsham. A 16-year-old driver died when her SUV collided head-on with a school bus in Sumner, and a 17-year-old girl died when the car in which she was a passenger skidded sideways into a second vehicle on a snow-covered road in Topsham. The Bureau of Highway Safety reported that those fatalities bring the number of teenagers killed in motor-vehicle crashes in 2007 to eight, the same number as last year at this time. Of the 187 people who died on Maine highways in 2006, 24 were teenagers. Highway Safety reports 38 people have died so far this year on Maine roads.
Tuesday's apartment house fire in Oakland was arson. Fire Marshal Sgt. Kenneth Grimes said it started in the third floor apartment of one of the building's tenants — Rachel Childs, 45, who later was rescued off a porch roof by firefighters. Grimes said the fire started in a closet in Childs' apartment. She was initially taken to a local hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and was transferred to another facility for evaluation. No charges have yet been filed.
The death of an 8-month-old girl in Auburn two weeks ago has been ruled a homicide. The Androscoggin County grand jury indicted Todd Gamache, 23, on a charge of murder. He was taking care of Emmy Leigh Cole who, according to the medical examiner’s office, died from a blunt impact head injury. Gamache is the boyfriend of the girl’s mother.
The state’s homicide total stands at seven for the year, including four that were the result of domestic violence. Both Auburn deaths were domestic. The two others were March 3 in Standish, (a son is accused of stabbing his father), and Jan. 12 in Fairfield, (a woman was shot to death and her estranged husband was charged with murder). The state’s top emergency dispatcher was named telecommunicator of the year Friday at the annual meeting of Maine’s chapter of 911 dispatchers. That award and several others honored many of the staffers at the local, county and state dispatching centers. The award ceremony took place at noon Friday at the Lewiston Ramada Inn.
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