MADISON, Maine — Maine State Police say they don’t know what drove a man to kill three people and wound another before being fatally shot in a confrontation with officers.
Spokesman Steve McCausland says detectives are trying to determine what sparked the violence Wednesday morning in the town of Madison.
The spokesman says 51-year-old gunman Carroll Tuttle killed his partner, 52-year-old Lori Hayden, and their son, 25-year-old Dustin Tuttle, at their home. The third victim was 57-year-old Michael Spaulding, who was killed at a nearby residence.
McCausland says the gunman returned to the original location and wounded a fourth person before being shot and killed in a confrontation with Somerset County deputies Wednesday morning. A 911 call was made around 7:30 a.m.
Police say the shootings happened at a couple of locations along a country road that runs behind the Skowhegan Fairgrounds.
A neighbor says there had been a party and fireworks at the home the night before.
Wayne Parlin said the Fourth of July gathering had taken place at a trailer home across the street in the town of Madison.
It was the deadliest shooting in Maine since November 2015, when a gunman killed three people before taking his own life in Oakland.