Police find gun at site of shooting

BLUE HILL – Police have yet to talk to a man who was shot at a home on Kingdom Road, but they found a gun Friday that is believed to have been used in the incident.

Dean Curtis, 51, of Brooksville underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the abdomen Thursday evening at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, said Maine State Police Sgt. Troy Gardiner.

He said he did not know what condition Curtis was in, but the injury is not believed to be life-threatening.

Police released few additional details Friday about Thursday’s shooting.

Douglas Moore, 46, of Blue Hill was being held Friday at Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth on a charge of elevated aggravated assault, Gardiner said. Police have said there was a confrontation between the two men just before the shooting took place at Moore’s home around noon. No one else was at Moore’s home at the time, they said.

Police have not released details about the nature of the confrontation or how the shooting occurred.

Two Maine State Police detectives took advantage of the sunny weather Friday afternoon to search for evidence at Moore’s remote property, which is on an unpaved section of Kingdom Road. They walked and looked through fenced enclosures and raked through fallen leaves on a path between a barn and a house while ducks, chickens, goats and a dog wandered the compound around them.

Logs and planks of wood lay strewn about the property, along with a fluorescent orange hunter’s cap that lay on the ground just past a yellow strip of crime scene tape that blocked the driveway at the edge of the road.

Around 1:45 p.m., police found under leaves between the house and the barn a handgun that they think may have been used in the shooting.