One person is in custody after four people were fatally shot in a Maine home and three others were wounded on a highway 25 miles away, according to police who say the crimes were linked.
YARMOUTH, Maine — Four people were fatally shot in a Maine home and three others were wounded on a highway 25 miles away, a pair of crimes that state police said Tuesday were linked. One person was in custody.
The shootings on I-295 led to a heavy police presence in Yarmouth, including officers carrying rifles. At one point, heavily armed officers peered inside the trunk of a car that had apparent bullet holes in the windshield at an off ramp. Witnesses told reporters they saw one person in handcuffs. At the scene in Bowdoin, yellow crime scene tape hung around a home with a long, gravel driveway in a wooded area. About 10 marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles and a crime scene van were parked outside, and investigators moved about and talked.
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