LAGRANGE (AP) — A state trooper has shot and killed a man involved in a standoff in Lagrange.
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland says 49-year-old Lewis Conlogue of Lagrange held police at bay for about three hours Sunday outside the site of a former restaurant on Bennoch Road. He says Conlogue, who was armed, died at the scene.
The Attorney General’s Office will investigate the circumstances of the shooting. The trooper has been placed on administrative leave with pay, standard state police procedure.
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