Officer Frank Pellerin of the Waterville Police Department stands Monday near where police tape has been used to cordon off the house at 119 Cool St. in Waterville, a day after a suspicious death was reported at the home. Officials later ruled the death of an unidentified man a homicide resulting from “sharp force injuries.” Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

WATERVILLE — A city man faces murder charges in connection with a man’s death Sunday at a house on Cool Street in Waterville.

Thomas Lowrie

An autopsy performed Monday morning determined the unidentified man died from “sharp force injuries.”

Thomas Lowrie, 41, appeared Monday afternoon at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta on the murder charge, according to Lt. Aaron M. Turcotte, troop commander of the Maine State Police Central Field Troop.

Lowrie was being held Monday at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta.

Turcotte said in a statement late Monday afternoon that the identity of the adult male victim was being withheld until further DNA testing was completed and next of kin notified. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta performed the autopsy and determined the manner of death to be homicide, according to Turcotte.

He said state police detectives arrested Lowrie on Sunday and charged him with murder.

Vehicles on Kennedy Memorial Drive, left, and Cool Street, right, pass the house Monday at 119 Cool St. in Waterville, a day after a suspicious death was reported at the home. Officials have ruled the death of an unidentified man a homicide resulting from “sharp force injuries.”  Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

The Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit worked Sunday at the house at 119 Cool St. after Waterville police requested assistance with the investigation, according to an advisory Turcotte issued late Sunday.

The property where the death was reported is at the busy intersection of  Cool Street and Kennedy Memorial Drive, just west of Messalonskee Stream and across Cool Street from the CVS pharmacy at 1 Kennedy Memorial Drive.

On Monday morning, the small, gray house with blue shutters was cordoned off with police tape. Waterville police Officer Frank Pellerin was stationed inside a cruiser in the driveway.

No activity was visible around the house, where multiple bicycles in various states of disrepair were parked around the outside of the home and near a small storage shed off the driveway. A black pickup truck was parked in the driveway, where weeds were growing near its rear wheels.

A neighbor who asked not to be named said she thought two men have lived at the house for about two years, and they spent a lot of time outside the home, mostly working on bicycles.

Officer Frank Pellerin of the Waterville Police Department stands Monday near the house at 119 Cool St. in Waterville, a day after a suspicious death was reported at the home. Officials later ruled the death of an unidentified man a homicide resulting from “sharp force injuries.” Amy Calder/Morning Sentinel

Several neighbors who live near the house were not home Monday morning or did not answer their doors when a reporter knocked.

Waterville police spokesman Maj. Jason Longley referred questions about the case to the state police.