Overview
- Police identified 55-year-old Dane Burke as the suspect in the killing of his girlfriend, Nicole Jackson, 46, in Skowhegan.
- The state medical examiner ruled Jackson’s death a homicide caused by blunt force and sharp force trauma.
- Lowell police spotted a 2018 silver Jeep Compass with Ohio plates around 8 a.m., triggering a pursuit that continued into New Hampshire via I-93, I-293 and Route 114.
- The Jeep crashed into a tree in Dunbarton, Burke barricaded himself in the vehicle, officers used non-lethal rounds, and he was taken to a hospital with injuries.
- Burke was arrested on a Maine murder warrant and faces additional charges in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with the Jeep seized as evidence and neighbors turning over doorbell video to investigators.