Two adults were found dead in a home in Searsmont, Maine, on Monday afternoon in what state police are now saying was a murder-suicide.
State police said the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office responded to the home on Borough Road around 1:50 p.m. and found the two people dead inside. The Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit was called in to assist.
Autopsies were conducted Tuesday morning, and the two people were identified as 50-year-old Amy Nickerson, of Stockton Springs, and 50-year-old Lance Lucas, of Searsmont.
The chilef medical examiner's office has ruled Nickerson's death as a homicide. The cause of death was a gunshot wound.
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Lucas's death has been ruled a suicide, and the cause of death was also a gunshot wound.
Nickerson and Lucas were domestic partners who had recently broken up, state police said.
State police detectives are continuing to investigate the events leading up to the shootings.
No further details were released.
