A New Hampshire man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Berwick man on Thursday morning.
Mark Forest, 37, was found seriously injured at his Katabel Lane residence in Berwick shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Forest had received a gunshot wound to the head.
Forest was transported to Wentworth-Douglas Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire, where he died, Moss said. An autopsy by the New Hampshire medical examiner’s office conducted on Friday morning determined that Forest’s death was a homicide.
An investigation determined 31-year-old Daniel Lafrenier of Rochester, New Hampshire, to be a person of interest in Forest’s death.
Lafrenier was arrested after York police received a report that a man had been attempting to break into a residence on the York Road. Lafrenier was transported to the York Police Department, and has been charged with murder for Forest’s death.
He made an initial court appearance at 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
An investigation into Forest’s death is ongoing.
