Maine homicides hold steady in 2020 despite rising numbers nationwide Contributed • January 1, 2021
By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff
Twenty-two people died in homicides in Maine in 2020, including three who were killed in a Washington County shooting spree. That is the same number of homicide victims in 2019 and one fewer than in 2018.
By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff
Twenty-two people died in homicides in Maine in 2020, including three who were killed in a Washington County shooting spree. That is the same number of homicide victims in 2019 and one fewer than in 2018.
Among the deaths is Linda Coffman, 73, from Aug. 26 in Greenville. Coffman and her husband were both found dead inside their Beech Street residence and the death was ruled a murder-suicide.