A 17-year-old male was found dead at the scene of a shooting in Lewiston on Sunday, one of three shooting incidents that occurred over this past weekend, according to Lewiston Police.
The first shooting occurred at about 10:30 p.m., when Lewiston Police received a 911 call for shots fired at 77 Rideout Avenue.
At the scene officers found a deceased male in the road.
The victim was identified by police as 17-year-old Sahal Muridi of Lewiston.
[Note: The Maine State Police initially issued an incorrect spelling of the victim’s last name (Murdi), and later issued a correction to Muridi.]
The address listed by police corresponds with a public housing development managed by the Lewiston Housing Authority, the so-called Hillview Apartments.
His body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta, where an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death will be performed.
Witnesses observed a silver Mercedes and a black Dodge Challenger with a temporary Maine registration plate fleeing the scene, police said.
The driver of the Mercedes has been identified and is cooperating with investigators, and the investigation remains ongoing, police announced Monday.
The second shots fired incident occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, when officers responded to 54 Knox St. in Lewiston.
Upon arrival, officers located over a dozen shell casings on the roadway.
While no one was struck by the gunfire, several bullets damaged nearby property, police said.
According to Lewiston Police, attempts to speak with several potential witnesses who were believed to be on the street at the time of the shooting were unsuccessful, as the potential witnesses “refused to cooperate.”
The investigation into the second shooting incident also remains active as of Monday morning, police said.
A third shooting occurred over the weekend in Lewiston at 8:18 p.m. Saturday evening at 253 Blake St., the Maple Knoll apartments parking lot.
The Maple Knoll apartments are low-income housing projects managed by the Lewiston Housing Authority.
At the scene, police located numerous shell casings and learned from witnesses that a man exited a vehicle on Blake Street and began shooting at an occupied vehicle in the parking lot.
Police said there is no indication that anyone was struck by the gunfire, but are attempting to identify both the suspected shooter and the target(s) of the shooting.
Police have not said whether they believe the shootings are connected.
Man, the future doctors and engineers sure have been busy! Let’s hope they all get lots of sleep during the day, so they don’t get too tuckered out. Somebody has to spend all that EBT money and steal cars and make war in the streets at night – won’t happen by itself!
More fine illegals looking for a better life who just want to work?
Just like Charago another Democratic town.
just because they repeat it ad nauseum, diversity isn’t necessarily a good thing
Vote Republican in November . This insanity has got to be stopped . Democrats are on their way to destroying Maine . Save Maine . Save America .
Joe or King should be here directing traffic. Maybe they can get some votes.
Let’s talk about having MORE GUN CONTROL next legislative session. Any bets these idiot democrats will rally around this incident like they did with Robert Card, the nut who should have been stopped and wasn’t because the state dropped the ball?
We need common sense Immigrant Control and we need it NOW.
Gotta love that WIDE OPEN sourhern border, and pretty much our northern border too! THANKS TO SOCIALIST DEMOCRAPS!
THEY DESTROY EVERYTHINGVTHEY TOUCH! the party of the kkk, Jim Crow, and the cause for the revolution war ….. among other good causes of the like .🙄
One of the problems is the Lewiston P.D. is SCARED to DEATH of these Somali Savages. I only wish they could’ve gotten a bigger Body count … Maybe A couple Abduls , a few Rashids , maybe a Mohamed or 2 …
Bangor is hardly any better than Little Somalia, and Patrolman Christopher Blanchard threatened to arrest me in January 13, 2023,if I ever reported any more crimes to the BPD that had ended by the time he and/or any of his colleagues had arrived in scene, thus claiming, of course, that I’m the type of person who likes to lie about criminal activities taking place.
Ms O’Donnell of Bangor City Hall and her former female boss who was the Bangor City Manager both promised me twice to look into that matter about Patrolman Blanchard, as did Lt. Wade Betters, Deputy Police Chief Bushey, and another policeman whose name escapes my memory. All of them blew me off.
The perhaps even worse fact about this subject is the vocal response I got from my city councilor who rudely and very inappropriate chuckled as I told him the story via telephone in February of 2023 and then had the gall to ask me why I believed Blanchard’s malfeasance was an important topic. That a policeman threatening to falsely arrest someone for reporting felonies is not an important subject of concern is shocking to me.
I reported an alleged refugee family’s elder son to Catholic Charities’ (reportedly that family’s sponsor) Allison Dayton because that probably thirteen -year-old had inexplicably thrown stones at the left side of my head as I was waiting for a bus at Garland and Park Streets in Bangor, which left a nasty gash. His father saw the incident from thirty feet away and laughed when I asked him why he did nothing to his son but had viciously beaten him moments earlier for tossing stones at his very young brother and hitting him repeatedly with a long wooden stick.
A lesbian couple I met seven days later at that same intersection angrily told me that that boy was a holy terror and had beaten up some little kids in that neighborhood and caused all of the children there to be afraid of him.
City Hall and BPD won’t do anything to help me, and I strongly believe that Senator Collins would refuse to assist me.