TROY, Maine — A 16-year-old boy was charged with murder Wednesday in connection with the March death of 49-year-old Steven Hodgdon.
The teenager’s name will not be released until he appears in court because of his age, Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland said in a news release issued Wednesday afternoon.
The 16-year-old was taken into custody in Lewiston and brought to the Waldo County Jail in Belfast. He is expected to make his first court appearance Thursday or Friday in a Belfast courtroom, McCausland wrote.
Police were called to Hodgdon’s Rutland Road home in Troy during the early morning hours of March 8. Hodgdon died from a stab wound to the chest, according to the Maine medical examiner’s office, and the death was ruled a homicide.
Police have not said who called them that morning or what the nature of the call was. The man lived at the home with his teenage son, but police have not said whether the son was home when officers arrived.
McCausland said in March the son had gone to live with relatives.
He said Wednesday that investigators conducted many interviews, reviewed evidence from the state police crime lab and consulted with the attorney general and medical examiner’s offices over the past month before making the arrest.