Woman in Jonesboro faces charge of attempted murder after shooting

JONESBORO – A 19-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday night in connection with a pre-dawn shooting that left her 24-year old boyfriend in critical condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Maine State Police charged Katrina Bridges, 19, with attempted murder and elevated aggravated assault for the shooting of Christopher Ingraham at the Look Point Road home that the two shared with their 4-month-old son.

Ingraham was shot in the head.

According to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine State Police, Bridges went to the Machias Public Safety Building at about 1 p.m. Wednesday to report the shooting and a robbery, and to report that their black 1988 Nissan Pathfinder had been stolen by a man involved in the shooting.

The shooting reportedly occurred very early Wednesday morning.

Bridges allegedly also told police that a gray Jeep Cherokee, possibly with Quebec plates, was at their house and that an accomplice had left the Jonesboro home with that vehicle. For much of Wednesday afternoon and evening, police searched the Maine countryside for the Jeep and Pathfinder. The Pathfinder was found at the entrance to a woodlot in Marshfield. Police said that Bridges drove it there herself.

The couple’s young son is staying with relatives, McCausland said. Police are getting a search warrant and will investigate at the residence Thursday.

McCausland wouldn’t speculate as to a motive for the shooting. He said police investigated the incident and spent the afternoon and early evening interviewing Bridges and other people.

By late evening, police were no longer looking for the Jeep, saying it was only part of a story allegedly fabricated by Bridges.