EDINBURG, Maine — An Edinburg man continued to recover Wednesday after being shot by a state trooper during a disturbance at the man’s home the day before.
Warren Frederick Dome, 54, was in serious but stable condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, a spokeswoman for the Maine Attorney General’s Office said late Tuesday. On Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said she had no information on Dome’s condition, which she said typically means that he had declined to allow his medical information to be released or he had been transferred to another facility.
Per standard procedure, Trooper Chris Hashey was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the attorney general’s investigation of the shooting. Under state law, that office is charged with investigating all police shootings.
Dome was wounded after he called dispatchers at the state police barracks in Orono at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from his home at 682 Edinburg Road and made homicidal and suicidal threats. Hashey and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Ray Goodspeed were among the first officers to respond.
When they arrived, Dome confronted them with a knife and was shot by Hashey, state police said, apparently in the leg.
The officers immediately began administering first aid to Dome. He was flown by LifeFlight helicopter from a park in Howland to the Bangor hospital at about 7:30 p.m., after paramedics spent close to 30 minutes administering to his wounds in the ambulance.
A spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office said at noon Wednesday that she had no new information about the incident.
Hashey is a decorated officer most recently recognized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in April for “outstanding service to crime victims and law enforcement.”
He was commended for helping solve the nighttime burglary at an Orrington gun shop on Aug. 23, 2010, that led to the conviction of four people for federal gun violations and other charges and the recovery of 22 firearms.
While investigating the burglary, Hashey learned a truck had gone off Wiswell Road in Brewer. The truck, which was being driven by one of the burglary suspects, was reportedly stolen from Corinth, and there was a motorcycle reported stolen from Winterport in the bed of the truck, according to a previously published report.
That led police to the rest of the suspects and the recovery of the weapons, police have said.
Hashey most recently made the news in June when he was among several troopers who pursued a motorcyclist northbound on Interstate 95 from Orono to Howland. The chase reached speeds of 150 mph before Hashey charged the suspect with several violations.
A friend of Dome’s, meanwhile, on Wednesday described him as an amiable man suffering from the ill effects of a recent breakup with his wife and from chronic pain from a knee injury suffered years before that eventually forced his disability retirement from a railroad company.
“He took it hard,” friend John Barker, 62, said Wednesday of his Edinburg Road neighbor’s breakup with his wife.
State police Maj. Gary Wright said that only Dome was living at his house when the incident occurred. Dome’s wife had moved out within the last six months, Barker said.
Dome, Barker said, is a former U.S. Navy medic, a tall and somewhat thin man who walked with a limp. Dome had recently purchased tickets so that one of his three children could come visit him from Arizona.
In February, Dome was arrested twice for operating under the influence over a three-day period, according to police.
In May, he was sentenced to 48 hours in jail, fined $500 and had his license suspended for 90 days after he was convicted of operating a vehicle while under influence of intoxicants.
Also last spring, he was ordered to pay a $350 fine for violating his bail conditions.
BDN, you don’t even have the correct photo of Tropper Hashey. You have the wrong Trooper cropped.
Dance Varmint, I says dance!
only thing hash done wrong was shooting him between the wrong round ones.. should of been 3 ft higher.
don’t they have stun guns?no dissagreeing on the actions taken, bu a stun gun might have avoided any bloodshed.
In a moment where as split decision needs to be made, an officer is going to reach for the tool that will be the most effective for ending the altercation. If this man didn’t want to get shot, he shouldn’t have approached the officer with a knife. That being said, since it wasn’t a life ending altercation I certainly hope he gets the help that he needs.
stun guns work well with unarmed people, but an armed person who is not rational? And some have shown to not be affected by the stun gun. Would you place your life on the line not knowing if your stun gun will work or not?
Will the “witness” ever get his car back?
I never understood why Hashey as a state trooper is assigned to his home town.. I didn’t know they allowed to do that..
As for the shooting I have faith in our State Troopers, they are trained well and I trust their judgement 100%.. Edinburg is out in the boonies and Chris had to protect himself.
officer Hashey is a great police officer, and a good person. It makes me angry to see all the nasty things people have to say about him when he was just doing what he thought was right for him, his fellow officers and the community. At least he had enough sense to just shoot him in the leg. He did a good thing, obviously there was no diffusing the situation. You never know he may have saved a life! No matter what he did people would scrutinize. I would like you to try and be a state trooper! Its not easy! People are to quick to judge, especially when they were not the ones face to face with the situation I’m sure more people would have just shot him the chest. And to the people that are saying he “picks up girls” and cruises on the job, you sound a little jaded, don’t use your personal issues that you have with him to try and make him look bad. And if you did your research the first time I heard about this on the news, the news station only showed the friends of the criminal, there was absolutely nothing to officer Hasheys defense. All news stations or websites have plenty of bias opinions. If i have anything to say its thank you for putting your life on the line to keep the citizens that are law abiding safe. Its a shame that after everything hes going through right now, he could possibly get on here see all the negativity some of you are spreading. Before you jump to judge people maybe you should think about what they are going through, how they must feel and most importantly put yourself in the situation, you react instinctively when your life is on the line. Anyone who knows something knows about the fight or flight response. And he is obviously a strong person and wasn’t going to run away, he did what he is trained to do, neutralize situations in the least aggressive way possible and obviously he felt his life was in danger. Give the man credit, he deserves it!
It is amazing how people can sit there and make comments about how police shoul use tazers or OC spray to disarm subjects with DEADLY weapons, how they are just bullies ect. Bottom line you meat force with equal or slightly greater force. have anyone of you had to disarm a subject having a homicidal episode with a knife? some one can close 30 feet and stab you (anywhere to include the neck) in much less time than it takes to draw and fire a weapon. They have only a fraction of a second to make a disicion which you people have had days to do.
So while you sit there and judge. there are police officers out there dealing with the problems you fear. Running toward danger as you runn away. Thier families afraid to answer the phone or open the door while they are at work afraid that it will be “the call” notifying them that thier loved one will never be coming home. thier child no longer can hug thier mother or father. Every time they put that uniform on they are a target.
Crime everywhere has increased and has bec ome more volitile. the police face thier fear and go forward to deal with the danger to make sure you are safe. they don’t know you. but they do it anyway at great risk. So go ahead and judge. go ahead and talk smack about how wrong they were and what they should have done. Then go put on a uniform and badge and do thier job. Only about 5 percent of people who begin a career in Law enforcement remain in that job after 10 years. Law Enforcement is not a job, it is not a career, it is a way of life. From the day you pin on that badge you loose some of your constitutional right you fight for. Freedom of speech, hindered, frredom of ssociation, hindered, freedom to pursue hapiness, hindered. They are held to a higher standard than the rest both on duty and off, yet they do this, all of this for you with out hesitation.
Trooper Hashey is a true profesional. I have seen him in action when the chips are down and he makes the right disicions. You all are lucky to be living in a state where you have so many men and women who are umong the best her to protect you.
To all law enforcement Who put thier lives on the line to protect the weak and inocent, who fight what everyone else fears, do deal with what everone else refuses to deal with, who work long hours away from thier family so everyone else can spend time with thiers worry free……I salute you !!! STAY SAFE!
ReasonableSense
It is a bit disingenuous to attempt to build a “straw man” out of others’ comments to serve as
your soap box for how great the police are. The decision for the government to shoot a man should be fully investigated each and every time.
You write “Trooper Hashey is a true profesional (sic). I have seen him in action when the chips are down and he makes the right disicions (sic).” He is infallible? Could he have made an error in judgment just this one time? Do allow for that as a possibility? Not saying it is “true” or anything other than “possible.” Can you accept that?
Look, we get it….you like the police and, by and large, no one seems to be disputing that it is a
difficult and, on rare occasions, dangerous. However, history is replete with poor police choices (Rodney King comes to mind as do COUNTLESS others).
Is the shooting of Mr. Dome one of them? We’ll have to wait and see. Your “police are always right because they face danger” position is not tenable and, to be candid, a bit embarrassing. Assuming you are LOE-affiliated, you should welcome intense scrutiny of the decision to shoot Mr. Dome rather than choosing a multitude of other options. Instead, you call
into question the motives of those who question the decision.
Shame on you, ReasonableSense