BOWDOINHAM
State police say a Bowdoinham woman, seriously injured inside her home on Monday, died at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
The victim is 55-year-old Beulah “Marie” Sylvester, according to police.
Sagadahoc deputies responded to her mobile home at 946 Post Road on Monday morning and found her unresponsive. Sylvester was first taken to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick and then transferred to Maine Medical, where she died late Monday night.
An autopsy by the Medical Examiner’s Office began Tuesday, “and additional work remains to be completed before final conclusions are reached,” said Steve Mc- Causland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, in a press release issued Tuesday afternoon.
According to McCausland, detectives and evidence technicians spent the day inside Sylvester’s home. Evidence gathered will be analyzed at the State Police Crime Lab in Augusta.
According to detectives, there is no danger to the public. The sheriff ’s department had not issued any information regarding charges or arrests as of press time. However McCausland told The Times Record later in the day that there still had been no charges and that no one was in custody. He would not comment on whether or not police have any suspects.
Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry posted a message on the sheriff ’s department Facebook page Tuesday night about the incident.
“The citizens of Sagadahoc County woke this morning to the news of another tragic death in the state of Maine; however, this one was in our county, in the small rural community of Bowdoinham,” Merry states. “This one is being ruled a homicide, the first one in Sagadahoc County in over 15 years. As a result, a life is gone and another is likely lost.”
Merry notes in the post that deputies have been exposed to a recent rash of violence “like we have not seen before.”
“In the past two months we have responded to and dealt with multiple stabbings, beatings, shootings and now a homicide,” he adds.
He also draws attention to the fact that those responsible for these recent acts of violence were all under the age of 24.
Merry revised the post Wednesday morning, removing the homicide reference.
dmoore@timesrecord.com
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