Derik Broox Wight, who remains hospitalized a week after the incident, is charged with assaulting a federal officer at the Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building in Augusta.
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FBI: Guard shoots man armed with knife at Muskie Federal Building in Augusta
Officials say man with knife assaulted a guard at the building and was then shot and taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta.
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State police shooting of Thorndike man in 2019 found to be justified
Trooper Thomas Bureau II reasonably believed Eric Fitzpatrick, then 33, was about to use unlawful deadly force against him when he shot Fitzpatrick in 2019, the state Attorney General’s Office determined.
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Augusta officers will start carrying stun guns following policing discussion with council
The Augusta Police Department to require officers to carry stun guns and is looking fill a mental health worker position that’s been vacant since December.
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Officers involved in deadly Augusta shelter shooting return to duty after internal investigation
An internal Augusta Police Department investigation into the shooting death of Dustin Paradis determined no corrective or disciplinary action was warranted.
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Officers had no chance to de-escalate, Falmouth police say of fatal shooting
A person called police Tuesday night to report that a man was running around an intersection with a knife, police radio transmissions indicate.
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Mother of autistic man killed by Augusta police says he was not a threat
Witness says Dustin J. Paradis, 34, was holding a knife, but stepped back from police and was not a threat to anyone but himself.
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Portland police say little about shooting by officer, but a witness emerges
Police have not answered even basic questions about the case, but a man who was sleeping next to Edward C. Hyman recounts what he heard when Hyman was wounded by Officer Nevin Rand.
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Rumford man killed during confrontation with police in Dixfield
Matthew A. Marston, 29, was shot by a Mexico police officer but died after shooting himself Friday night on Route 2, the Maine Attorney General’s Office says.
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Philadelphia man charged with firing shots near Maine Medical Center
Portland police charged a man with randomly firing multiple gunshots near Maine Medical Center on Tuesday evening.