BANGOR, Maine — While an eyewitness said the fatal stabbing on First Street early Tuesday involved a group of people — one with a weapon — defending a woman, police remained tight-lipped Wednesday about what they think happened.
No press conference is planned, no arrests have been made and no information about the weapon is being released, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
“I can’t comment on evidence in the case,” Edwards said.
Deputy Police Chief Peter Arno confirmed Wednesday evening that no one had been arrested in relation to the stabbing.
Police said Tuesday that the state medical examiner’s office determined that the death of Andy D. Smith, 38, was a homicide and that the cause of death was stabbing.
Police were called around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday to the area of 69 and 71 First St. and found Smith with a stab wound. He was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center and died that morning.
Smith’s friend Eugene “Shawn” Cox, a resident of 69 First St., said he heard Smith arguing with a woman he once lived with out in front of his apartment building just before the stabbing and watched from an upstairs window as they exchanged punches.
Another woman, who lives at 71 First St., “came out with a two-by-four and she hit him,” apparently in defense of the first woman, Cox said. “He got the two-by-four away from her and she called for her friends. They all started on him.”
Seconds later, Smith was bleeding from a wound to his left rib area and was trying to get away. Cox said he did not see who stabbed his friend. He grabbed a pipe and ran downstairs and said he encountered his bleeding friend at the bottom of the steps.
The group of people whom the woman called to help her had been partying all night long, two neighbors and Cox said.
“It’s an ongoing thing every day,” he said.
RIP Ralph Greenleaf.
I was just thinking to myself “This is Greenleaf all over again”. I wonder who the assailants parents are connected to…
Well I know how 2 of them fit in the Greenleaf case . One was a administrator at the county jail another ones parent is the superintendent of Bangor schools.
as in, Betsy Webb?
Get over it this is a totally different case and much different circumstance!
Of coure the circumstance was different.. You cannot deny that it does matter who commits the crime… if it were to be 3 other young men without connections there would have been a case made of at least assult.. But we can’t or won’t ruin the young stars chances of making something of themselves…
Haven’t heard that name in a while. Good ole Richard. Beg for food? Maybe if he hadn’t decided to steal it he wouldn’t have to beg for it.
David were you under the JC bridge when Mr. Greenleaf and the 3 (or some BDN news accounts say 5) young men encountered each other? If you weren’t you have no idea what happened do you.
Were you there? Funny how you keep defending what happened. Maybe you personally know the family of the accused? Let see at the risk of being band Did the third kid have something to do with basket ball? I think you know more than I do about this case . Just saying I have seen the do you know who I am attitude from a county commissioner when he knew he was wrong. What was I do do call the sheriffs dept? Like that would have worked.
“Were you there?”
Bob I have answered that question numerous times but to answer it one more time, no I wasn’t there. And neither were you.
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“Funny how you keep defending what happened.”
I am defending the process that has been used since the founding of this country. It has worked and worked well. Your assuming that because no indictment was returned that something nefarious occurred. Fortunately, in this country you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Maybe you would prefer that anyone accused of a crime would have to prove their innocence because they must be guilty or why would they be accused?
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“Maybe you personally know the family of the accused?”
I wouldn’t know any of those involved if I tripped over them.
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“Let see at the risk of being band Did the third kid have something to do with basket ball?”
I don’t know and I don’t care. Maybe one of them worked at McDonalds? Maybe one of them was an honor roll student? Maybe one of them took piano lessons? Does any of that matter?
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“I think
you know more than I do about this case.”
I don’t know any more about this case then what has been printed in the BDN. But I do know the criminal justice system works, how different witnesses see the same thing but when questioned report greatly different events, how investigations proceed and evidence is gathered and how the Grand Jury system works.
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“Just saying I have seen the do you know who I am attitude from a county commissioner when he knew he was wrong. What was I do do call the sheriffs dept? Like that would have worked.”
Politicians play the “do you know who I am” card all the time. You have two choices when they to…look them in the eye and say “yes I do and you put your pants on one leg at a time just like every else does so you point would be?????” And calling the Sheriffs department would have accomplished nothing as it is not a crime to play that card.
To play the card when you are breaking a law . Using in the do you want me to get out of my truck context I consider a threat . Just saying some use thier position believe it or not.
Bob spoon feeding information in posts doesn’t help your case. Your first post said the County Commissioner did something “wrong” and he played the “do you know who I am” card”. Now the County Commissioner was “breaking the law”. See how stories change over time and you were there for that one!
If he was breaking the law you should have called the Sheriff’s Office or the State Police instead of assuming they weren’t going to do anything. You were wrong not to do something if he was breaking the law. You allowed the behavior to continue.
I’m assuming you are related to the Gallant involved with the Greenleaf death.
Its great to see how much your family values human life!
Nok- Noi didn’t you read the correction: there is no 69 First St? The address is 67 First St.
bpd for you
it’s the wild wild west, just like greenleaf, just like surles, just like all the drugs and needles they turn a blind eye to.
they could bust so many crackheads if they wanted to but for some strange reason they don’t.
So many is the key word. Its more cost effective to herd them into gettos.
are you serious? You have no clue what you’re talking about!
oh yeah?
All of you complaining about the BPD, I suggest you apply. go to the academy and work the street. If not shut your mouths!
I think the Bangor Police do a wonderful job…. they were a little taxed that day along with the airport issue.
I would add to that by saying all law enforcement do a thankless job. Anyone who has a family member who has served as a police officer – it’s often more taxing and dangerous then most military careers.
Nice thing about FREEDOM of SPeech Robert, we dont have to shut our mouths, and i certainly dont plan on you making me. Have a nice day though.
well, MAYBE if they didn’t charge people to apply, more people would be interested! Who wants to have to pay $50 for this test and $35 for that test, and $50 for the other test. How many other jobs require employees to *pay* to apply?
I was say in the same thing yesterday its going to be the same story as Ralph Greenleaf.. May they both RIP…Its so sad and sick how the system works..
No peace.
No justice.
The contact number for Sheriff Donnie Smith in Washington County is 207-255-4422. Maybe he will loan some help.
It will all come out in the wash
I have read these moronic comments for two days. How many times will someone bring up Ralph Greenleaf when the case has nothing to do with it. I agree, RIP Ralph Greenleaf. It was sad. Very sad. This case appears to be different. Now the peanut gallery is calling for an arrest…..how about calling for a conviction. Arrests mean nothing without follow through and successful prosecution. Arrested people get bail and walk free within days of being incarcerated. They are free until trial. Like they are when they are NOT arrested. How does that make the case successful. Sometimes police know more that the methadone dependant bystander looking for their fifteen minutes of fame. I am sure they know more than us as we make comments based on what WE read.
Are you all positive that the victim in this case is dead. Re-read the news accounts. While the reporting could be wrong, it appears that people went to the street to save a woman from being beaten by a man. The man took a weapon from one of them and continued to wield it against others. Then the man was killed. Could it be a case of defense of another person and the “victim” is actually a suspect that was stopped. Do you think the police might see and know things that you do not. How do you know that this woman would not have been killed if not for the alleged “angry mob”. I bet that there was not one college baseball player or superintendant’s son amongst this group of First Street Einstein’s. There are not alot of people of privilege on First Street. Yet, no one in the case has been arrested. That takes the wind out of the sails of those who claim that people are not arrested based on their name or their rank in society. I want the police to do a good job and arrest the right person, then convict that person and let them take a detour around “GO” and head for the jail.
I think that I might have to re-subscribe to the printed edition of the BDN. At least the editorial page letters to the editor were reviewed before print so some of the comments made some sense.
What a shock BDN removed a post because I called someone pathetic! What a joke! Guess the truth does hurt!
You better be careful with comments.
Thin skinned and thick headed readers and BDN editors have little patience
and less understanding of some peoples comments.
I think this paper caters to the easily confused and offended.
So , be a good little comrade and play nice.
Or you will be silenced.
Ask me how I know.
That is , if this doesnt get censored.