BANGOR, Maine — A local man was found by police severely beaten and bleeding from his head on Friday after he was attacked by a Rockwood man while at the Second Street park, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday.
William Wheelock, 21, of Rockwood took off on foot and was gone by the time Officer Kim Donnell arrived about 8 p.m., but he was located on Monday and arrested, the sergeant said. Wheelock was charged with Class B felony aggravated assault.
The 39-year-old Bangor victim “had a broken nose and cracked orbital bone around his eye,” Edwards said.
The victim and witnesses at the park told police Wheelock “tackled the victim, and beat him about the face repeatedly with his fists and feet,” Edwards said.
The victim reported that he was minding his own business when the suspect attacked him.
“It was unprovoked,” Edwards said.
The victim, who said he did not know the man who brutally beat him, was able to give police a good description of Wheelock, the sergeant added.
The department’s Criminal Investigations Division took over the beating investigation and found Wheelock at the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter about 3 p.m. Monday, Edwards said. He was arrested and taken to the Penobscot County Jail, where he remained on Wednesday.
Wheelock was convicted of two counts burglary and two counts theft by unauthorized taking or transfer earlier this year for his role in burglarizing Moosehead Motorsports in Greenville Junction Township in June 2011, according to court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News. He was sentenced in April to 120 days in jail on each count, to be served concurrently, and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.
Wow.. for 21 he looks like hes about 40. Looks rode hard and put up wet.
he’s got the maine look
How incredibly rude and ignorant
well can’t be ignorant and rood without being right
“The victim reported that he was minding his own business when the suspect attacked him.”
Ehhhh something about that statement stinks a bit. Just a gut feeling. While its POSSIBLE this was an unprovoked random attack…its more PROBABLE that the victim knows the guy..and knows why he’s so p-ssed off at him.
witnesses said the same thing….
Would the witnesses have known if these two people had a history or not?
But it would still be unprovoked, past history is no legal reason to attack someone.
So he was sentenced in April to 120 days, this means he must have got time off for “good behavior”. I guess that is what good behavior gets you.
That was 2011
Re-read. He committed the crimes in June of 2011.
If this was an unprovoked, random beating like they say (though I doubt it), this guy oughta be “put down” like they would if it was a pit bull.
If this skinny little crackhead tried to run up on me and “attack” me, he would be one sorry dude. One of these days, he will swing on the wrong guy.
This man has black eyes. He is missing his soul.. If I were you I would avoid him.
All the more reason he needs to get an “adjustment”.
Put this loser away for a long long time.
More transients in the new! Nice of the Homeless Shelter to be so accomodating to criminals
Because I am sure as soon as he walked in he told him he had just beat some guy. Or not. How is the shelter to blame? Awfully easy to point the finger at things which have no voice of their own. Besides, the Shelter, being inanimate object cant directly be responsible for anything. Sure, it might attract some unwanteds, but all in the all the shelter is a good thing. Bangor has a rather high homeless and unemployment rate. If there wasnt shelters around, where do you suspect these people would be and be doing to survive?
They would be doing something other than assaulting someone in the park, like WORKING!.
I agree, they should be doing something else but I dont see the relevance to my comment, here. And homeless people are often homeless for a reason. Not like going out and getting a good paying job is that easy these days, especially for the homeless.
You asked what they would be doing to survive, thats the relevance
sad thing is, Will is very bright, and I think, kind. What provokes someone to this point? don’t know the whole story.
Let him know you’re hiring
Nobody will hire him now with the record he has, not my fault!
The shelters enable this type of behavior.
Thank you! My point exactly, I’m sure the original intent of these places was great, but this place and others have become a haven for folks like the guy in the article.
So tear it down then. Put all those people on the street. See what happens.
The shelter is not an inanimate object it is a corporation whose board makes decisions about who they will accept, they have made the decision to accept sex offenders, and criminals obviously.
That’s where you go when you have no place to live.
Now he’s in the other place you go when you have no place to live. The one with a routine.
I feel sorry for the people working in the shelter if this is the type of person they have to deal with!
If he was sentenced to 120 days in April, why is he out now?
Guy looks like scum
Nothing good ever comes from 2cd street park…this is a literal playground for all of the druggies of Bangor.
You’re not going to start the bulldozers up are you?