A teenager from Maine was shot in the arm Sunday afternoon on Route 495 north in Merrimac, Mass., during what state police are calling “an apparent road rage incident.”
The 16-year-old girl was taken to Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass. Her injury is not life-threatening, police said.
State police said they are looking for a white Honda Accord with tinted windows and a red, white and blue registration plate. Police described the driver as a white woman with sunglasses. The shot, they said, apparently was fired shortly after noon by a dark-skinned male passenger with short hair and wearing a gray T-shirt and sunglasses.
Other occupants of the teen’s car blamed road rage on the shooting, but no other details were immediately available, police said.
“State police are asking for the public’s help in this matter. Traffic at the time of the shooting was heavy and there may be other witnesses to this crime who have not yet been identified,” said Lt. Daniel G. Richard.
Anyone with information is urged to call the state police barracks in Newbury at (978) 462-7478.
(c)2012 the Boston Herald
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You mean his massachusettscare?
I believe the correct nomenclature is “RomneyCare”
Red white blue plates? Wash. DC?
Probably Ohio.
More likely, Massachusetts….
LOL! Good point. Not sure how everyone overlooked that! :)
It may be. I’d forgotten about the specialized “for a cause” plates of that color combo.
even the regular plates that everybody has are a white background, with red and blue lettering
Ha! I had to go out and check my car! Your right: White with red letters/numbers and blue writing. Most of us just think of them as the ‘green’ or the newer ‘red’ plates Guess we’re just to used to seeing them. It is odd, though, that the story brought up the colors of the plate since it took place in Mass.
Ya that threw me off too. The whole story is kind of off beat and slightly misleading anyway.
The color scheme might have been the only thing that she remembered, or could make out as the car drove away.
Good thing it’s so hard to get a gun in Massachusetts.
this story is sorta like karma:
most of the illegal guns in mass
are guns that came from MAINE. sold
by a mainer to someone in mass
odds say, the mass driver had an illegal gun
the gun likely was originally from maine
b.s.
do you have any evidence to support your ridiculous statement?
DONT mess with the bull, you will get the horns
Maine guns for Mass. drugs
http://www.sunjournal.com/node/811894
Mar 14, 2010 – In 2008, for example, 97 of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Massachusetts had come from Maine.
Acton man pleads guilty in gun case | The Kennebec Journal …
http://www.kjonline.com/…/acton-man-pleads-guilty-in-gun-ca_2010-07-2...
Jul 27, 2010 – The flow of guns from Maine to Massachusetts has been a source of tension. Massachusetts requires all private sellers and all buyers in private …
Maine man pleads guilty for sending guns to Massachusetts …
http://www.masslive.com › Breaking News – MassLive.com › Crime
Jul 28, 2010 – Federal prosecutors say Randy Goodwin sold almost 100 handguns he had purchased in Maine.
Maine man charged in guns-for-drugs scheme
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Maine A Maine man has been charged in what authorities say is a scheme to trade guns stolen in Maine for drugs from Massachusetts. Maine Drug Enforcement Agency supervisor James Pease says 32-year-old Charles Dodge of Rockland is facing charges of conspiracy to traffic in guns and conspiracy to violate…
97 guns….
are you kidding me?
there’s probable 97 illegal guns in 1 SMALL city in mass alone!
I’d be willing to bet that the majority of illegal firearms are obtained elsewhere.
While i have no statistics to support my belief, considering the population of boston alone, 97 guns is nothing compared to what’s there.
and by the way, nice way to pick and choose
from your first posted article:
“Another 91 came from New Hampshire.”
from the same article:
“Following up on that, Lewiston police, the Violent Crimes Task Force and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigated the source of the assault rifle. In doing so, they found six more — two assault rifles, two handguns and two rifles — at another Lewiston location. They also found cocaine, marijuana, cash and a bulletproof vest, all signatures of a thriving guns-for-drugs trafficking network. All of the items, police said, had been stolen in a Portland burglary.”
so, therefore, many of the guns in the hands of criminals in Massachusetts were stolen, not sold from maine.
let’s just do the stats a bit, shall we?
97 – 7 (stolen guns) = 90, which is less than the 91 from new hampshire,
so therefore the “majority” of guns SOLD to the criminals in mass. are from new hampshire.
Does your hand hurt from the spanking you just gave?
sarcasm or serious?
I’m serious. You did a fine job spanking pitbull. He has gone so far as to say his dogs can take a gunshot and keep charging at anyone who has a beef with him. Now, all the guns in mass are from Maine. Pfft.
What? That is ridiculous. That kind of crap is what gives my dog a bad rap. My pit bull is a loving and loyal dog, and wouldn’t hurt a fly. Anyone who brags about how tough and mean their dogs are shouldn’t be aloud to have one.
Sorry, didn’t mean to chime in on your conversation, but saw that alleged statement and it made me angry. Not at you, but for the statement itself.
I’m with ya. I had one, Belvedier, that was one of the best friends I had. He died while protecting my daughters from a wolf/husky. I hope to have another after my Pug and Min Pin expire.
Mine is 5 years old. Just got an 8 week old Boston Terrier, and my Pit loves that thing. Treats it like its his baby or something. He has taught the puppy how to behave more than I have already!
It’s interesting that, though the Sun Journal article says that “97 of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Massachusetts” in 2008 came from Maine, it doesn’t say how many guns were recovered at crime scenes in Massachusetts that year. Without that, it’s a pretty meaningless assertion.
And I seem to remember the Fenway Park billboard they make reference to. It was put up by a group of people eager to blame anyone else for their own state’s inability to do anything about their spiraling crime rate. State’s being overrun with armed thugs willing to shoot at total strangers for no good reason? Must be because it’s so easy to buy a gun in another state! Horsehockey.
WOW that a bit overstepping the facts. Ok ALLOT over.
“Downeast Fast and Furious- The Sequel”
Maybe they were just filming the trailer for the movie.
Hope the girl completely recovers with no lasting effects.
To say a 16 year old girl getting shot by a person from Massachusetts is karma is very disturbing. Karma means that things happen to people because of what they have done in previous lives. So you are suggesting that this girl had it coming to her. Very disturbing thing for you to say indeed.
some mainers sell guns down in mass to hoods
the hoods shot each other..no one cares up here
then a mainer goes to mass, and gets shot by
a hood with ,likely an illegal gun,very possible a gun
that started from maine
probably not pitbull.
Pitbull you may want to correct you wording. CRIMINALS sell firearms to out of state CRIMINALS who use them to commit CRIMES. Maine has a state constitutional protection from the gun grabbing left. Mass is run by the gun grabbing left. Maine has the HIGHEST per capita firearm ownership in the USA we also have almost the lowest crime rate. Mass has a ultra high level of firearms laws and much fewer firearms per capita but a massively higher crime rate.
CRIMINALS do not care about the law so making more laws does nothing to them.
And, of course, you have data to back up your statement … ???
If the rage in this country doesn’t simmer down, you can bet that marshal law will soon follow. When local and state law enforcement gets overwhelmed with crimes of all nature, then you will see it happen overnight.
Spare us the conspiracy garbage, we are the government, you can'[t get any two politicians to agree on everything, they all are far too quick to sell the other down the road for any large secret to turn our soldiers or cops, who by the way are citizens too, against us.
Conspiracy garbage? I have no idea what you are talking about. One of us needs to push the reset button.
I think you might mean martial law (law enforcement functions taken over by the military for the duration of some real or imagined emergency). “Marshal law” would be a bit redundant, since marshals are already law enforcement officers.
If that is the case, well… doesn’t seem likely. The best imaginable excuse in a century for declaring martial law came and went without such a declaration nearly 11 years ago.
How does one process in their brain, the decision to shoot and possibly kill a person because of a traffic incident? I hope they catch the perpetrators and prosecute BOTH of them to fullest extent of the law. And I wish a speedy recovery to the unfortunate 16 YEAR OLD girl. A child, shot in the arm by a man, because of road rage. Disgusting.
Strict enforcement of traffic safety laws, including checking for weapons and warrants, is one of the most effective ways to take violent street criminals, and their weapons, out of circulation. Strict traffic enforcement also deters violent street criminals from carrying weapons in their vehicles, out of fear of getting stopped by the police. Vehicles should be stopped for apparent mechanical violations of the code also, as violent street criminals not only drive much more aggressively and unsafely than the general public, but tend to maintain their vehicles in poor mechanical condition and have other visible code violations as well.
The main problem is unmarried teenage and 20-something males acting out aggressively, in part to impress their friends and girlfriends. Violent street criminals are terrorizing large parts of the country already, and the problem is spreading to other areas as well, so no area is completely safe any more
Sounds more like gang activity than simple road rage.
yep.. she was probably in a rival gang….. those 16-year old girls who drive north on 495 can be quite the rabble-rousers…
road rage is bad . i happened to witness road rage . i was with a friend some driveer who was driveing irractically passed him on the right handside on the broadway exit . he chased that person all the way to medway. that person was all over the road going at speeds up to 90 miles a hour he called the cops on that person they never showed up until the medway exit it was a state trooper and game warden. i called 911 several times to get this person no one showed he kepted up with this person meaning he was going the same speeds that person was all over the road not one cop on 95 .
That’s not road rage. That’s irresponsible drivers who do whatever they please because there is no possible way to patrol the entire state of Maine.
Road rage would be the feeling one gets after someone does something wrong to you on the road. For example, I feel a little road rage when someone tailgates me, when I am doing 5 over, for many safe passing zones before finally going around me. It’s natural to get pissed off when something like that happens. The problem is when people act on that feeling.
Funny story, the other day in Orono, a minivan (who obviously didn’t know what they were doing) stopped in the middle of an intersection when the light had turned yellow. There was one car in between us. Eventually, they realized that they were more in the wrong to sit in the way of everyone than to finish running a red light. The funny part is that I caught up to the woman in the car that was directly behind the minivan at another light, so she was next to me. Everyone’s windows were down because it’s been so hot. So, she just starts venting to me while we’re at the red light and I’m like “I know, right?!”
If only more people just vented to strangers at red lights ;)