MEXICO — State and local police focused their attention Wednesday morning on finding a bullet that exited the window of a Riverside Park trailer where a man was shot in the head Tuesday.
Thomas Joudrey, 30, remained in critical condition Wednesday at Maine Medical Center in Portland, a spokesperson said.
Police said Tuesday that Joudrey and two other men were at the 9 Riverside Park home off Route 2 at the time of the shooting. A manhunt Tuesday failed to find one of the men, Robert Terrill, 28, who lived at the home, but left before police arrived at about 4:20 a.m.
Police continued Wednesday to seek Terrill for questioning.
“We’re still looking to speak with Mr. Terrill to tell us his side,” Maine State Police Detective Sgt. Mark Holmquist said. “He hasn’t phoned us yet, and we’ve been trying to contact him through his relatives.”
Terrill is 6 feet tall and weighs about 175 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He left the scene wearing tan pants and a black T-shirt and carrying an olive-green duffel bag. Anyone with information on Terrill’s whereabouts is asked to call 911.
Late Wednesday morning, Terry James, an investigator with the Maine State Police Evidence Response Team, and State Police Detective Randy Keaten brought in Maine Game Warden Jeremy Judd and his search dog Tundra to try to find the missing bullet.
Tundra, a cadaver dog, is also trained to follow human scent. Judd worked the dog around the side of the trailer where a bullet hole could be seen in a side window. James told Judd that the bullet struck the back board of an electricity meter.
Using the view screen on his camera, James showed Judd a photograph of a laser following the trajectory path through the window of the missing bullet.
Judd worked Tundra around neighbors’ mobile homes and the meter board in a possible ricochet radius. James told Judd that the bullet might have traveled a quarter of a mile, so Judd and Tundra crossed the street and searched around mobile homes on that side and woods to no avail before leaving at 11:30 a.m.
Police said Tuesday that the gun used in the shooting is a .45-caliber, semi-automatic handgun. It belongs to Dan Riley, who is renting the mobile home, they said.
At the time of the shooting, Riley was in New Hampshire visiting his father, police said.
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- While continuing to investigate Tuesday morning’s shooting of Thomas Joudrey in a trailer at 9 Riverside Park in Mexico, Maine Game Warden Jeremy Judd, left, talks with Maine State Police Evidence Response Team investigator Terry James on Wednesday morning about a bullet impact on the electricity meter board, as state police investigator Randy Keaten and Mexico police Lt. Roy Hodsdon watch. Judd and his dog Tundra searched for the bullet.
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- Maine Game Warden Jeremy Judd watches his cadaver dog Tundra work the crime scene at 9 Riverside Park on Wednesday morning in Mexico. Thomas Joudrey on Tuesday was shot in the head inside the brown trailer in the background. The dog, which can detect human scent, was attempting to find a bullet that exited a window and struck the top of the electricity meter board at left, Maine State Police investigators said.
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- Police on Wednesday continued to search for Robert Terrill. He is wanted for questioning in a shooting in Mexico early Tuesday. Police say Thomas Joudrey, 30, was shot in the head with a .45 caliber handgun. Joudrey remains in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland. This photo shows Terrill as he appeared in a 2011 booking photograph taken at the Oxford County Jail.
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- Police are seeking Robert Terrill, 28, for questioning in a shooting in Mexico early Tuesday morning. Anyone with information on Terrill’s location is asked to contact police. Terrill as he appears in a photo provided to the public and the media on Tuesday by the Maine State Police.
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- State and Mexico police investigators were joined by Maine Game Warden Jeremy Judd and his search dog Tundra on Wednesday morning to try and find the bullet that exited this side window of a trailer at 9 Riverside Park after Thomas Joudrey was shot in the head early Tuesday morning in Mexico.
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