\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA New York man died at a Maine hospital after he was shot by a police officer during an incident in Skowhegan, according to authorities.Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam said at about 6:33 p.m. Saturday, the department received a call about suspicious activity at a Water Street home. The caller reported there was activity at a home that was not occupied, as the person who lived there died earlier in the day.Officers who responded to the scene saw a man and woman walking away from the home and told them to stop.Bucknam said the man, later identified as Kenneth “Carlos” Ortega, refused to comply with commands and fired a gun in the air.According to Bucknam, Ortega then pointed the gun down toward officers, which is when Skowhegan police Officer Benaiah Willhoite shot Ortega.Ortega, 30, was transported to Redington-Fairview General Hospital, where he died of his injuries.Bucknam said Willhoite is being placed on administrative leave, which is standard protocol when an officer is involved in a deadly-force incident.The Maine Attorney General’s Office will investigate the shooting.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tSKOWHEGAN, Maine \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A New York man died at a Maine hospital after he was shot by a police officer during an incident in Skowhegan, according to authorities.<\/p>\n Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam said at about 6:33 p.m. Saturday, the department received a call about suspicious activity at a Water Street home. The caller reported there was activity at a home that was not occupied, as the person who lived there died earlier in the day.<\/p>\n Officers who responded to the scene saw a man and woman walking away from the home and told them to stop.<\/p>\n Bucknam said the man, later identified as Kenneth “Carlos” Ortega, refused to comply with commands and fired a gun in the air.<\/p>\n According to Bucknam, Ortega then pointed the gun down toward officers, which is when Skowhegan police Officer Benaiah Willhoite shot Ortega.<\/p>\n Ortega, 30, was transported to Redington-Fairview General Hospital, where he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n Bucknam said Willhoite is being placed on administrative leave, which is standard protocol when an officer is involved in a deadly-force incident.<\/p>\n The Maine Attorney General’s Office will investigate the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York man died at a Maine hospital after he was shot by a police officer during…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":578016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13257,250852,13136,10617,250846,3040,7614,316,44801,250847,2741,250853,16366,65209,250851,405,403,100819,250848,5226,5225,5228,5227,4531,35785,142057,5488,250849,250855,250854,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,250850,250856,10694],"class_list":["post-578015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-authority","tag-bucknam","tag-call","tag-carlos","tag-carlos-ortega","tag-department","tag-gun","tag-home","tag-kenneth","tag-kenneth-ortega","tag-maine","tag-maine-officer","tag-maines-total-coverage","tag-man-killed","tag-man-shot-by-police","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-man","tag-new-york-man-shot-by-maine-police","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-officer","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-ortega","tag-police-shooting","tag-skowhegan","tag-skowhegan-incident","tag-suspicious-activity","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-water-street","tag-water-street-home","tag-wmtw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}