Police review shooting Buxton boy killed while hunting

DANFORTH – Investigators were still looking into details Tuesday of the shooting of a 15-year-old Buxton boy during a Monday morning hunting trip.

Mark Latti, a spokesman for the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, said that Adam Chase, 15, of Buxton died from a gunshot wound to the head as a result of the incident. The teen’s body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy after the shooting occurred shortly before 8 a.m. on the Schillinger Road in Danforth.

“Police are basically trying to determine whether the shooting was accidental or self-inflicted,” Latti said Tuesday afternoon. “At this point, the Maine State Police have taken over the case and are looking into it.”

Police believe that Chase came with his uncle from the southern Maine town to accompany his grandfather on a hunting trip to the area. State police troopers and officials from the Maine Warden Service were on the scene shortly after the shooting and released few details about the incident on Monday.

The shooting came on the heels of another hunting related fatality this season. James Griffin Jr., 21, of Levant, was shot by a companion who was hunting illegally after hours. The case is scheduled to go to the grand jury for review in order to determine whether Adam B. Nason, 20, will face charges stemming from the incident.