AUGUSTA — State police are investigating a man’s death on Flagg Street shortly after 11 p.m. Monday, Maine Department of Public Safety’s public information officer Shannon Moss said.
Augusta police responded Monday night to an “incident” on Flagg Street, Moss said in a news release, and found a man deceased at the scene.
Moss said the “circumstances surrounding the death are currently under investigation,” and that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta would conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of the death.
There is no ongoing threat to the public, Moss said. She did not say whether anyone had been arrested in connection with the death.
Augusta’s dispatch log shows that several police and rescue units responded to Flagg Street, a small residential side street near downtown, at 11:13 p.m. for an apparent homicide. One ambulance then transported to a nearby hospital, the log shows. Augusta police were on scene until at least 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.
At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, a Maine State Police evidence collection vehicle was still parked on the street, along with several other state police cruisers and trucks. Police tape blocked access on each end of the street.
The vehicles and activity at the scene Tuesday morning appeared to center on the duplex at 8-10 Flagg St., a brick building owned by Community Housing of Maine, the state’s largest supportive housing provider.
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