A standoff that began when a man refused to leave a house after killing his 70-year-old mother ended more than 16 hours later when a tactical squad entered the home and found the gunman dead early Saturday, officials said.James "Mike" Peters, 42, was believed to have been shot by a member of the tactical team because his body was next to a window through which shots were fired, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
"We are working under the assumption that he died as the result of one of the shots fired by the state police tactical team," McCausland said.
The standoff began shortly after 10:30 a.m. Friday after Peters shot his mother, whose body remained on the driveway near the home throughout the ordeal, McCausland said. State police said it would have been unsafe to try to retrieve the body.
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