Overview
- A single-vehicle crash on Thursday night, June 25, at the intersection of Route 9 and Route 193 in Township 22 left a 5-year-old boy dead after the car failed to stop at a stop sign and struck an embankment.
- State police say troopers found the boy in the front passenger seat in rapidly deteriorating condition and he was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving efforts.
- Dion Campbell, 33, of Elkhart, Indiana, the father of both children, was arrested Monday and charged with manslaughter, criminal operating under the influence, aggravated driving to endanger and endangering the welfare of a child.
- Investigators say neither the 5-year-old nor his 10-month-old sister was properly restrained; the infant and Campbell were taken to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center with injuries described as not life-threatening.
- Authorities continue a preliminary investigation that will inform criminal proceedings and any toxicology or other tests, and the case will proceed through an initial court appearance while the community and family cope with the loss.