The state medical examiner’s office said Stephen Bossom suffered multiple wounds to his torso in the shooting July 15 and ruled his death a homicide.
A man fatally shot by a Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy during a confrontation earlier this month at a campground died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, the state medical examiner’s office said Friday.
A spokesperson for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Lindsey Chasteen, said in an email that the manner of death for 35-year-old Stephen Bossom was ruled a homicide. The autopsy found that he sustained organ damage and severe loss of blood, Chasteen said.
She said the office also performed a toxicology report on Bossom, as is standard with autopsies, but could not release the results without permission from his family.
A message left Friday with Bossom’s mother, Susan Bossom, a Virginia resident, was not immediately returned.
The state attorney general’s office is leading the investigation into the shooting, as it does with all cases involving use of lethal force by law enforcement. A spokesperson for the Office of the Maine Attorney General, Danna Hayes, declined to discuss the autopsy results, saying the office doesn’t comment on pending investigations.
