New Portland grandmother ‘lucky to be alive’ after Avon shooting
Police said the shooter is cooperating as investigators probe a custody-related altercation and Cairnie remains hospitalized after the bullet missed her heart by 1 centimeter.
- On Friday, Jessica Cairnie, 53, was shot through a windshield with a 9 mm handgun while picking up her grandchildren at a family camp in Avon, Maine.
- The incident stemmed from a child custody dispute in Franklin County, police reported, as Cairnie waited in the car while her son retrieved his three children.
- Maine Health EMS responders met the pair at Charles Lindbergh Airport, then Cairnie was flown by LifeFlight of Maine to Maine Medical Center in Portland.
- Doctors called it an "absolute miracle" that the bullet missed her heart by a centimeter, her son Rory Smith said; Cairnie is recovering at Maine Medical Center.
- Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit troopers are investigating the incident; authorities confirmed on Wednesday that no one has been charged and all involved are cooperating.
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The bullet missed Jessica Cairnie's heart by a centimeter, her oldest son Rory Smith Jr. said.
An exuberant summer evening ended on Tuesday in Vienna with a tragedy: a 41-year-old man died after jumping from a pedestrian bridge into the New Danube. According to previous findings, the man – a Czech construction worker – was on the way in the evening together with his work colleagues. Several times he should have jumped from the Georg-Danzer-Steg into the water. However, the 41-year-old did not show up at the last jump.
Firemen brought the man ashore. Reanimation measures remained unsuccessful.
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