AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine attorney general has determined the shooting of a Brewer woman by a Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy last summer was justified.
Alexis Lannon, 20, was shot and wounded by Deputy Kari Kurth in Carmel last June 28, according to an announcement from the attorney general’s office.
Lannon had been shot by the officer after threatening people with a “homemade weapon.”
When the officer arrived at the scene on Route 2, Lannon advanced toward her with the weapon and was subsequently shot. The officer had given Lannon repeated commands to drop the weapon.
Lannon was treated for her wounds at a Bangor hospital and discharged. She was arrested on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and criminal mischief, and was ordered committed to the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta in September after being found not competent to stand trial.
