AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general says a state trooper was legally justified in using deadly force during an armed confrontation in West Paris last spring that left an 18-year-old seriously hurt.
Attorney General Janet Mills on Tuesday said a trooper was called by dispatchers on June 8 after a woman reported seeing a man later identified as James Reynolds acting suspiciously.
Trooper Jason Wing confronted Reynolds and told him to drop what was in his hands. Reynolds yelled a profanity and pointed a rifle at him. Wing fired three times. Reynolds sustained injuries to his head, arm and leg. Mills said it was later determined the hunting rifle in Reynolds’ possession had been stolen.
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