GORHAM – The fallout from the shooting of a Gorham juvenile in a July incident police suspected as attempted arson continues to impact a Gorham youth football program.

A Gorham coach, who tax records indicate owns property where a teenager was shot July 13, has been reinstated after being replaced as coach of a team for middle school-aged players. Now, the president of the Gorham Football Boosters, which sponsors the team, has stepped down after being targeted in a verbal assault from the public stemming from when the coach was initially replaced.

No charges in the shooting/attempted arson case had been filed early this week, according to Gorham’s Detective Sgt. Dana Thompson. Authorities have not released names of the 14-year boy who was shot and injured, or the shooter.

Police said the incident happened at 8 Mountview Drive, property owned by Craig and Tracey Bassingthwaite, according to Gorham tax records.

The coach, Craig Bassingthwaite, confirmed Tuesday that he had regained the reins of the Gorham Grizzlies after being placed on leave of absence last month as head coach of the team, sponsored by the Gorham Football Boosters.

An interim coach had been named to coach the Grizzlies.

Bassingthwaite’s removal drew criticism from parents and apparently angered some citizens, who targeted Greg Yahm, president of the boosters, with verbal abuse. The abuse has led Yahm to resign.

Yahm said Tuesday his resignation was not based on the decision of the boosters’ board to reinstate Bassingthwaite and his coaching staff.

“I handed in my letter to resign before the new vote was taken. As much as I enjoyed my position as president of the Gorham Football Boosters, I felt with all the personal verbal abuse I was taking it was time for me to step down and let things quiet down, which did happen,” Yahm said.

Ron Smith, a parent of a Grizzlies’ player, said Monday that Donda Young, vice president of the boosters’ board, has been chosen as acting president, replacing Yahm.

The Grizzlies are scheduled to kick off the season at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26, in York.

“We’re back up and running,” Smith said.

“The program is in full swing and the best feeling is that all the kids that want to play football are playing and that is the ultimate goal,” Yahm said.

Gorham Football Boosters, a nonprofit organization, also sponsors the Junior Grizzlies for players in grades 4-6 and the Grizzly Cubs, for grades 2 and .

Yahm commended members of the boosters’ board of directors for their “time and energy” as volunteers.

“I will continue to support the program and all the coaching staff of all three programs any way I can like I have for the past 31?2 half years,” Yahm said.

“It is just a shame that some people have to go as far as they did and make remarks that they were not sure of the facts that we were faced with; 98 percent of the Gorham residents are great people and were great to work with,” Yahm said.