AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine state police say tear gas was used to end a 10-hour standoff with an Augusta man charged with killing a man whose body was found on the outskirts of Hallowell.
Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Stephen McCausland says 30-year-old Peter Bathgate refused to leave an apartment when state and local police arrived early Tuesday to arrest him. He surrendered at 11:30 a.m. after a state police tactical squad fired tear gas into the apartment.
McCausland says Bathgate was charged with murder in the death of 47-year-old Paul Allen of Augusta, whose body was found on Sunday alongside a road.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office declared Allen’s death a homicide on Monday. The cause of death has not been released.