STOCKTON SPRINGS, Maine — Police arrested a local man Tuesday who is accused of shooting a handgun at a vehicle that had two women and a young child inside.
The incident began a little before 12:30 p.m., when the women drove to a residence on Damon Road to retrieve some belongings. They told police later that Kirt Damon, 23, came out and told the women to hurry up and leave, or he was going to shoot at the vehicle, according to Detective Merl Reed of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office.
The women got in the vehicle and began driving off.
“Both females saw Kirt emerge from the front door of the trailer. He pointed a handgun at the vehicle and fired one round. They said he fired at the vehicle while they were driving away,” Reed said.
After making their escape, the women called police to report the shooting.
Police found no bullet hole in the vehicle, but contacted Damon, who agreed to meet them at the head of the driveway. Reed said police made that request as a precaution because of the reported weapon.
When Reed, Officer Harry Patterson III of the Stockton Springs Police Department, and another officer arrived at the driveway, Damon told them that he had fired a warning shot, but had aimed at the woods and not at the vehicle. That is still illegal, Reed said.
“You can’t just fire a warning shot,” he said.
Damon, who was cooperative with police, turned over the .32 caliber handgun.
He was charged with reckless conduct with a firearm and criminal threatening, with bail set at $5,000 cash or $50,000 surety.
Damon was unable to make bail and was transferred from Waldo County Jail in Belfast to Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, Reed said.
Patterson will be the lead investigator on the case.
The perp is smiling because he knows he’ll get a slap on the wrist in Maine’s namby-pamby, Kumbaya social justice lovefest we call court.
THAT’S IT!!
That’s the obnoxious smile I just wanna wipe off of so many kids today.
REVELATION… I may have had a smile like that in my arsenal when I was younger. But I think it would have been gone long before I got to a mug shot.
That’s his arrogant smile.
No kidding. That police dept. smirk is getting old fast, all about the attitude. If he and she were flipping burgers somewhere, anywhere, they wouldn’t even run into each other. Nope…..ahhhh, I’ll bring a gun into the situation, that should help. I have no sympathy for twenty somethings that don’t try to improve their lives. Grow the frig up.
That’s a smile that states this isn’t his first rodeo…oh, my god – look at that face – it’s not funny at all (the situation), but I can’t stop laughing….makes me think twice when I want to blow my horn or give people the one finger salute in the car–you never know what people are packing these days!!
Which is exactly why I “pack” as well…
Well, I am hoping you’re one of the very few good drivers, because when someone almost causes me to have an accident, or almost runs me off the road, I tend to toot – please don’t shoot!!
Question for you (if you know the laws, which you probably do) – if he had shot at your car, would you be legally within your rights to have fired back?
If you feel your life is threatened then you may use what ever force you feel neccessary to protect your life, if someone threatens me with a gun or other deadly weapon and i am unable escape safely then i would do what ever i had to do to save myself.. but those of us who carry a ccw need to understand that even if we are justified in a defensive action we might still be prosecuted, Zimmerman/Martin is a fair example of this….also i know you are just joking but those of us that carry a gun would not shoot someone for flicking us off while driving, we are for the most part extremly responsible citizen, we carry because we understand that there will always be bad people out there regardless of laws on the books and we cant expect the police to be everywhere. When second count the cops are only minutes away kinda deal.
Thank you.
If someone flips me off or honks their horn at me for anything, let alone driving, I would not pull my gun out. Now if that middle finger turned into an index finger on a trigger, da*n straight I’m going to defend myself.
And you should be able to…first part was suppsoed to be light-hearted-but I was serious for the second part – thank you, Mr. Faulkingham, and you, Todd.
I figured the first part was light-hearted, but you can never bee too careful. ;-) And you’re welcome.
Looks happy enough.
Send him through the new airport check points a couple of times and the smile will be gone.
haha
That smile alone should send him to jail for years
Now that’s a very familiar name………read it before in court/police news, and more than once, too.
Women…you can’t live with them, you can’t assault them.
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2009/12/29/news/man-on-bail-arrested-second-time-for-assault/?ref=relatedBox
Check this one out: http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2008/09/05/news/midcoast/three-more-arrested-in-family-feud/
just goes to show the apple dont fall far from the tree.
2 morre at home just like him. Oh yeah, and that guy they call dad.
“The family that plays together…” And that warning shot will help keep the gold diggers out of Midcoast too: http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2012/05/09/news/midcoast/midcoast-banking-on-baby-boomers-area-wooing-wealthy-community-minded-retirees/
ahhhh yes those two families have quite a name in Belfast, Searsport, Stockton area that is why he sounds familiar! Im sure this wont be the last time we will see that last name pop up.
To smile is to show your true intelligence!
This guy clearly has no respect for the rule of law or human life. Sociopathic people who want to harm others is precisely the reason so many of us carry concealed. The scary thing in society today is that most criminals don’t fear the consequences of their actions. There is absolute right and wrong and our judicial system has become a joke that panders to those claiming to be “mentally ill at the time the crime was commited”.
an ironic post from his fb on tues..
“hatin on me will make your situation worse you dont wanna take a ride in that long black hurst”
Looks like the smile of a pathological.