\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
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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":2,"featured_media":127806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13355,55203,55208,55207,55196,13357,5126,3450,55209,55197,5315,55204,35064,3317,55201,9,11,26548,55198,10,2714,22756,55202,20873,55199,55206,55205,55200,55210,35066],"class_list":{"0":"post-127805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-authority","9":"tag-bucknam","10":"tag-call","11":"tag-carlos","12":"tag-carlos-ortega","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-gun","15":"tag-home","16":"tag-kenneth","17":"tag-kenneth-ortega","18":"tag-maine","19":"tag-maine-officer","20":"tag-maines-total-coverage","21":"tag-man-killed","22":"tag-man-shot-by-police","23":"tag-new-york","24":"tag-new-york-headlines","25":"tag-new-york-man","26":"tag-new-york-man-shot-by-maine-police","27":"tag-new-york-news","28":"tag-officer","29":"tag-officer-involved-shooting","30":"tag-ortega","31":"tag-police-shooting","32":"tag-skowhegan","33":"tag-skowhegan-incident","34":"tag-suspicious-activity","35":"tag-water-street","36":"tag-water-street-home","37":"tag-wmtw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}