GRAY — A woman was shot and killed by her husband in Winslow on Monday night, and he committed suicide after a chase with police that ended in Gray, Maine State Police said late Monday.
State police identified the couple as 30-year-old Sarah Gordon and 32-year-old Nathaniel Gordon, both of 4 Marie St. She was shot on Marie Street and he fled the scene in his car, police said.
State police say that the husband chased his wife down the street and shot her and killed her in front of a neighbor’s house. The shots were witnessed and heard by neighbors, which were reported to police.
Nathaniel Gordon shot himself inside his car after police put down a spike mat, causing him to crash along the Maine Turnpike, roughly 100 yards from Route 26, shortly after 9 p.m.
Sarah and Nathaniel Gordon were the parents of a son and daughter, ages 8 and 9. The children were placed in the custody of a grandparent Monday night, according to police.
The evening chase moved through a number of towns, including Lewiston, before state police were able to get a spike mat down and disable the vehicle.
Maine Public Safety Spokesman Stephen McCausland said Sarah Gordon was found by police early Monday night after residents on Beck Street in Winslow called to report shots fired.
The shooting occurred before 8 p.m. and Nathaniel Gordon was pursued by police as he headed south. A little over an hour later, he shot himself after hitting a guardrail.
A witness said the suspect crashed into a guardrail a short distance from the Route 26 overpass after one of his tires was blown out. Police said it was shortly after the wreck that Gordon shot himself. Troopers say a couple of shots were fired by Gordon from inside his car, just before he shot himself.
According to police, the family lived on Marie Street in Winslow for about a year. Family members say “although the couple argued often, no formal paperwork had been located indicating a pending separation or divorce,” according to a press release from Maine State Police.
Investigators were at crash scene into Tuesday morning, and autopsies are underway at the State Medical Examiner’s Office.
This was the seventh homicide this year in Maine and the third homicide related to domestic violence, according to police.
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- A man wanted in connection in a murder in Winslow shot and killed himself on the Maine Turnpike just past the overpass of the Route 26 bypass in Gray Monday night.
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- A man wanted in connection in a murder in Winslow shot and killed himself on the Maine Turnpike just past the overpass of the Route 26 bypass in Gray Monday night.
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- A man wanted in connection in a murder in Winslow shot and killed himself on the Maine Turnpike just past the overpass of the Route 26 bypass in Gray Monday night.
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- A man wanted in connection in a murder in Winslow shot and killed himself on the Maine Turnpike just past the overpass of the Route 26 bypass in Gray Monday night.
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- A man wanted in connection in a murder in Winslow shot and killed himself on the Maine Turnpike just past the overpass of the Route 26 bypass in Gray Monday night.
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