CHESTERVILLE — Officers outside a Norton Road home heard a gunshot Friday night and later discovered Elmer A. Norton dead inside, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Saturday.
Norton, 24, had been wanted for questioning in a Livermore Falls shooting.
“(The State Police Tactical Team) went to a house in Chesterville, surrounded it. We could not get a response and when the team entered the home some time last night, they had found that he had shot and killed himself,” McCausland said. “Those are all the spartan details that I have on it.”
The specific address was not available. It was also unclear whether Norton lived there.
Norton was alone in the house at the time.
Livermore Falls police alleged that Norton had taken a shot at a 34-year-old man on Depot Street, missed, and ran away on Thursday. According to court records, Norton used to live at 54 Depot St. He’d been indicted earlier this month on a charge of criminal threatening stemming from an incident on June 9. He also had an outstanding arrest warrant from a domestic violence complaint on June 13.
Livermore Falls Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. had issued a statement to the press Friday while several police agencies searched for Norton.
“It is alleged that Mr. Norton had a (cell phone) altercation with the 34-year-old male victim,” Steward wrote. “He later confronted (the victim) in person at the Livermore Falls location with a handgun. He fired one shot at the victim, missing him, and ran from the area.”
That handgun had been stolen from Farmington a week earlier, police said.
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