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State Police Trooper Shoots And Kills Man In Confrontation In Wales

State police have identified a man fatally shot by a trooper early Monday morning after an hours-long standoff in the Androscoggin County town of Wales.

Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland says Trooper James Macdonald shot and killed 54-year-old William Derick during an armed confrontation.

McCausland says police were called to a mobile home about 9 p.m. Sunday after a shot allegedly had been fired at a woman in a domestic violence incident. The woman was not injured.

The Maine attorney general’s office is investigating, which is standard procedure after a police shooting.

“The specifics will come out in the AG’s report when it is released. We’re certainly cooperating fully with the attorney general’s office and conducting a review of our own,” he says.

MacDonald, a seven-year state police veteran and member of the agency’s tactical team, has been placed on paid administrative pending the review, also standard practice.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.