Two sex offenders shot to death in Maine

[rpannier]

AUGUSTA, Maine - Two registered sex offenders were gunned down in their central Maine homes early Sunday, and a Canadian man sought in connection with the slayings fatally shot himself after Boston police cornered him on a bus, officials said.

Stephen A. Marshall, 20, shot himself in the head with a .45 caliber handgun when officers stopped the bus he was on and climbed aboard, said David Procopio, spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney.

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The shootings of Joseph L. Gray, 57, of Milo, and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth, led state police to take down the Maine Sex Offender Registry Web site as a precaution, state Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The site lists the photos, names and addresses of more than 2,200 sex offenders.



I'm not sure why the guy shot them, but if he did pull their names off the list to kill them I would not be totally surprised. I always thought it is a real possibility that people would find and kill people on the registry.

[paul_fromatlanta]

1. My first thought was that he was a molestation victim

He's young and kind of vulnerable looking

[carlydenise]

2. In light of what just happened in Oklahoma with the little girl

I think people are getting tired of sex offenders hurting or killing people and being set free. I foresee this occuring more and more, now that names of sex offenders are being made public.