Joseph Eaton confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and wounding three others while shooting at vehicles along a highway.
arrived to broken glass, bullet holes, blood and guns strewn about the home, and the suspect was later arrested at the scene of a highway shooting with what appeared to be blood on him, according to state police.
One of his court-appointed attorneys, James Mason, acknowledged after the hearing that the shootings shook the state. Police have yet to discuss what might have been a motive behind the shootings on a rural property in Bowdoin and then along a busy interstate highway about 12 miles from Maine's largest city, Portland. Police also have not discussed what gun or guns were used, or how Eaton obtained them.
The latest in a string of mass shootings in the U.S. began in the small town of Bowdoin, where four people were killed Tuesday, with three bodies discovered in a home and one in a barn, police said. The victims were identified as Joseph Eaton’s parents, Cynthia Eaton, 62, and David Eaton, 66, along with homeowners Robert Eger, 72, and Patricia Eger, 62, police said. The two couples were described as best friends.
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