AUGUSTA, Maine — The suspect accused of fatally stabbing a stranger in the ice cream aisle of a grocery store this week confessed to have been planning a random attack for a month, according to a police affidavit on Friday.
Connor MacCalister was “angry with life,” and “wanted to get back at someone,” police said, before stabbing Wendy Boudreau, 59, of Saco. The suspect planned to start the attacks with a “small elderly female whom she knew wouldn’t resist.”
MacCalister, 31, has been charged with murder, but did not enter a plea at a court appearance on Friday.
Police have identified MacCalister as a woman. But the suspect’s brother told the Portland Press Herald that MacCalister is transitioning to a man.
According to the affidavit, MacCalister first spotted Boudreau in the parking lot, then followed her into the ice cream aisle of a Shaw’s Supermarket in Saco, grabbed Boudreau from behind and slit her throat.
An employee from the supermarket’s bakery department rushed to help Boudreau, who had fallen to the floor and was bleeding profusely, according to the police report.
Two emergency medical technicians in the store aided Boudreau, who was a mother and grandmother.
Boudreau, who had been stabbed in the neck and face, was taken to a nearby hospital but died soon afterward, police said.
MacCalister was pinned to the ground by two shoppers at the store, who kicked away the knife and waited for police to arrive, according to the affidavit.
When asked by another shopper why MacCalister had committed the crime, an apparently calm MacCalister, who was dressed in camouflage and had a shaved head, replied, “I’m off my meds. She looked at me wrong.”
The state has requested MacCalister undergo a psychological exam.