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Police Investigating Death of 5-Year-Old Girl at Grandparents' Home

State police say it’ll be several days before they offer an accounting of how a 5-year-old girl was shot and killed in Scarborough Monday night.

Spokesman Stephen McCausland says the victim, Elise Dorr of Belfast, was staying at her grandparents’ home, along with two older siblings and her parents.

“What we are doing at this point in the investigation is trying to determine the circumstances under which this shooting took place and the tragedy that occurred inside this home. We’ve interviewed the parents, gathered evidence from inside the home, there’ll be an autopsy and we’ll compare all of that information as we arrive at some final conclusions,” he says.

The shooting occurred about 7:30 p.m. Monday, night and the girl died shortly afterward at Maine Medical Center.