Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies are planning on interviewing an Edgecomb man today who was injured by a shooting the investigators believe was “self inflicted and unintentional in nature,” according to a Sheriff’s Office press release.
The man is 70 years old and the wound “appeared to be (sic)non life threatening,” according to the release.
The man was transported by LifeFlight helicopter the afternoon of Dec. 5 for an accidental gunshot wound, according to Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter.
The page for the incident went out at around 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 and Potter said he was told the man had called in the accident himself.
When Potter arrived on the scene on Moonlight Road in Edgecomb, the man was still conscious but had lost “a lot of blood.”
Potter said he believes the man “had a .38 in the pocket of his jacket and it went off.”
“The bullet went into his chest and the medics believe it was lodged in his neck,” Potter said.
A landing zone was set up at the Edgecomb Fire Station, and a Wiscasset ambulance transported the man to the helicopter, Potter said.
The LifeFlight helicopter transported the man to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Potter said.
The man’s name has not yet been released until the man’s family has been notified, Potter said.