ALFRED — The state has not announced whether it will still pursue charges against a man who was sentenced to life in prison last week in federal court for shooting his wife and her friend in Saco.

Gregory Owens, a 59-year-old former Army marksman from Londonderry, N.H., was sentenced to life plus 20 years on federal charges of interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. He was found guilty by a jury in February.

In the early hours of Dec. 18, 2014, Owens drove from his home in New Hampshire to the home of Steven and Carol Chabot in Saco, where his ill wife, Rachel, had been staying to give him a brief respite.

According to prosecutors, he intended to kill his wife of 35 years so he could be free to have a relationship with his girlfriend in Wisconsin, who had recently found out he had lied about being in the process of getting a divorce.

Owens has also been indicted on state charges of four counts of aggravated attempted murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of elevated aggravated assault, two counts of elevated aggravated assault with indifference, two counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, one count of burglary with a firearm and one count of criminal mischief.

“I can’t comment at this time,” said Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan in an email Friday afternoon, when asked if the state would still pursue the charges. “The next event in the State’s case is a status conference in September.”

— Staff Writer Liz Gotthelf can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 325 or [email protected].