Man shot to death in scuffle at trailer park in Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — A Lisbon man smashed into a mobile home and pistol-whipped one of the occupants before getting fatally shot during the drug-related scuffle, police said Tuesday.

Jack Frost, 27, staggered away and collapsed outside a nearby mobile home after the shooting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Detectives who returned to the scene on Tuesday were still trying to sort through what happened, McCausland said. The shooting was described as drug-related, he said.

Frost was shot in the home of Joseph and Judy Pelletier at the Linnhaven Mobile Home Park, McCausland said.

Frost entered the home with a pistol, pistol-whipped Joseph Pelletier and was shot in the ensuing scuffle, he said. An autopsy was being conducted Tuesday by the state Medical Examiner’s Office.

Neighbors who watched a parade of pickups, sports cars and the motorcycles regularly drop by the mobile home where the shooting occurred weren’t surprised to see violence erupt.

“Me and my wife, we watch cops on TV and we used to kid that someday we’re going to look out there and the SWAT team’s going to be there,” said Roger Phillips, the next-door neighbor.

The Pelletiers and two men who were visiting at the time of the incident were questioned by state police detectives. There were no arrests as of Tuesday afternoon, McCausland said.

Joseph Pelletier was treated at a local hospital and released, but McCausland did not know the nature of Pelletier’s injury.

Police found drugs inside the Pelletier home, but McCausland did not disclose the type of drugs found.

Police questioned the Pelletiers; Joseph Warren of Bowdoin, a guest of Joseph Pelletier; and James McKenney of Brunswick, who was believed to have fled after the incident, McCausland said.