PARKMAN — The death of local resident David Grant, whose body was found at his Packard Road home late Tuesday night, left one of his neighbors feeling nervous.
Rob Burton, who lives just down the narrow dirt road from where Maine State Police and media had congregated Wednesday, stopped his truck as he was driving past to find out what had happened.
“It’s only a mile from my house. That’s not good,” said Burton, who lives with his girlfriend and her young children.
“Stuff like this destroys a small town,” said Burton. “It makes you nervous.”
State police remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the death of the 61-year-old Grant. A second man, whose name police did not release, was found seriously injured at the mobile home and is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Bangor hospital, according to Stephen McCausland, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman.
“He’s in the ICU at Eastern Maine Medical Center. His condition is being monitored,” McCausland said Wednesday afternoon.
The age of the man, how he was injured and his relationship to Grant are questions McCausland said he could not answer. McCausland also declined to talk about what caused Grant’s death.
“We’re working with the medical examiner’s office to get the answers to how Mr. Grant died,” McCausland said.
Grant’s body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta where an autopsy was conducted Wednesday morning, McCausland said.
Messages left for Mark Belserene, spokesman for the medical examiner’s office, were not immediately returned.
Grant lived at 117 Packard Road in Parkman with a 45-year-old woman who declined to discuss the matter on Wednesday. The rural trailer was surrounded by children’s toys and abandoned vehicles.
Initially, members of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office were called to the house and later were joined by state police detectives, who worked the scene throughout the night and part of Wednesday.
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